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LXX Psalms

Septuagint

Septuagint · 1st Century B.C.E.

The Septuagint translation of Psalms was a very influential book, much quoted in the New Testament and subsequent Christian writings. Some psalms are divided differently from the Masoretic text, resulting in different numbering from 9 to 147 (MT 10-148), and there is an additional Psalm 151, quite different from the others; a similar Hebrew version has been found at Qumran. There are a number of additional or expanded headings. Some of these are liturgical, but most are historicizing, especially about David. Some scholars think that the 'historical' expansions are subsequent to the original translation. On the whole, the translator follows his source-text closely. The translation is thought by some to have influenced later Hebraizing translations and revisions in other books.

1Blessed is the man who does not go in the counsel of the ungodly, and does not stand in the way of sinners, and does not sit in t he seat of evil persons. 2 But rather his will is focused on the law of the Lord, and in his law he will meditate day and night. 3 He will be like the tree that has been planted along the streams of the rivers, which will give its fruit in its season. And its leaf will not fall off. In all things, however much he does, he will be given prosperity. 4 Not so the ungodly, not so! But rather, they are like the chaff that the wind spreads abroad away from the face of the earth. 5 On this account the ungodly will not stand up in the judgment, nor will the sinful stand in the council of the righteous,

2because the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly will perish. 2 Why were the nations unruly, and the people meditated on vain things? 2 The kings of the earth are present, and the rulers are gathered together against the Lord and against his anointed one. 3 They say, “Let us break their bonds,” and “Let us throw their yoke off us.” 4 The one dwelling in the heavens will laugh at them, and the Lord will mock them. 5 At that time he will speak against them in his wrath, and in his anger he will bring trouble to them. 6 “But I was appointed by him in Mount Zion, his holy place, 7 announcing the ordinance of the Lord. The Lord said to me, ‘You are my son; today I have fathered you. 8 Ask from me, and I will give to you the nations as your inheritance, and as your possession the ends of the earth. 9 You will rule them with a steel rod. Like a vessel of a potter you will break them.’ ” 10 And now, O kings, understand; be educated, all who judge the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice exceedingly because of him with trembling. 12 Take hold of instruction, in case the Lord become angry, and you perish from the righteous way when his anger burns out quickly. Blessed are all who trust in him.

3A PSALM OF DAVID WHEN HE ESCAPED FROM THE FACE OF HIS SON, ABSALOM. 2 Lord, why are the ones afflicting me increased? Many rise up against me. 3 Many say to my soul, “There is no salvation with his God.” 4 But you, O Lord, are my helper, my glory, even raising my head up high. 5 With my voice I cried aloud to the Lord, and he heard me from his holy mountain. 6 I went to bed and fell asleep. I awoke, because the Lord will help me. 7 I will not be frightened by the myriads of people who set themselves in a circle around me. 8 Stand up, O Lord! Save me, O my God, because you struck down all those hating me pointlessly. You broke the teeth of the sinners. 9 Salvation is the Lord’s, and your blessing is upon your people.

4FOR THE END, AMONG THE PSALMS, A SONG OF DAVID. 2 When I called, the God of my righteousness heard me. In tribulation you made room for me. Have mercy upon me and hearken to my prayer. 3 Sons of humans, how long are you slow of heart? Why do you love vanity and seek a lie? 4 Know that the Lord magnifies his holy one. The Lord will hear me when I have cried out to him. 5 Be angry and do not sin. For what you say in your heart, let your conscience be pained upon your beds.[1] 6 Offer a sacrifice of righteousness and place your hope in the Lord. 7 Many are saying, “Who will show for us good things?” The light of your face, O Lord, was manifested upon us. 8 You gave cheerfulness into my heart. From the fruit of their grain and wine and olive oil they were satisfied. 9 In complete peace I will go to bed and fall asleep, because you alone, O Lord, make me dwell me in hope.

5FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF THE INHERITANCE, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 Listen to my words, O Lord; understand my crying. 3 Pay attention to the voice of my supplication, my King and my God, because to you I will pray, O Lord. 4 Early in the day you will hear my voice. Early in the day I will approach you and gaze upon you, 5 because you are not a God who wants evil, nor will you dwell beside one who acts wickedly. 6 No lawless persons will remain before your eyes. You hate, O Lord, all those working lawlessness. 7 You will destroy all those speaking falsehood. The Lord detests a man of bloodshed and deceitfulness. 8 But I will enter into your house in the multitude of your mercy; I will worship at your holy temple in the fear of you. 9 Lord, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make my way straight before you, 10 because there is no truth in their mouth. Their heart is vain. Their throat is an opened grave. With their tongue they deal treacherously. 11 Judge them, O God. Let them fall from their deliberations according to the greatness of their ungodliness. Expel them because they provoked you, O Lord. 12 And let all who place their hope upon you rejoice in you for eternity. They will be cheerful exceedingly, and you shall dwell among them, and all who love your name will exult in you. 13 For you bless the righteous one, O Lord; you crowned us as with a shield of good will.

6FOR THE END, AMONG HYMNS UPON THE EIGHTH, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 O Lord, do not reprove me with your anger, nor correct me with your wrath. 3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, because I am weak. Heal me, because my bones were troubled. 4 My soul was troubled very much. But you, O Lord, for how long? 5 Turn, O Lord; rescue my soul. Save me on account of your mercy, 6 because there is no one who remembers you in death, and in Hades who will confess you? 7 I grew weary with my groaning. I will wash my bed each night; with my tears I will drench my bedspread. 8 My eye was troubled from anger. I became worn out among all my enemies. 9 Keep away from me, all who work lawlessness, because the Lord heard the sound of my weeping. 10 The Lord heard my supplication; the Lord accepted my prayer. 11 May all my enemies be put to shame and very much troubled. May they return and quickly be very ashamed.

7A PSALM OF DAVID, WHICH HE SANG TO THE LORD CONCERNING THE WORDS OF HUSHAI, A BENJAMITE. 2 O Lord, my God, in you I placed my hope. Save me from all those pursuing me and rescue me, 3 lest he snatch my soul as a lion while there is no one to redeem nor to save. 4 O Lord, my God, if I did this, if there is injustice in my hands, 5 if I returned evil to those repaying good to me, may I then perish empty from my enemies. 6 Therefore let the enemy pursue my soul, and let him seize it, and let him trample my life to the earth, and let him cause my glory to dwell in the dust. 7 Rise up, O Lord, in your wrath. Be lifted high among the boundaries of my enemies. Awake, O Lord, my God, with the command that you ordered. 8 And the gathering of the people will surround you and return for this into the heights. 9 The Lord will judge the peoples. Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to my innocence in me. 10 Let the wickedness of the sinners indeed be ended. And make straight the righteous one by examining hearts and minds, O God. 11 My help is righteous from God, who saves those who are right in their heart. 12 God is a righteous judge, and strong and longsuffering, not bringing wrath each and every day. 13 If you do not repent, he will polish and make ready his large sword. He stretched out his bow and prepared it. 14 And with it he prepared an implement of death; he completed his arrows against those burning ones. 15 Look, he labored and produced lawlessness; he conceived toil and fathered injustice. 16 He dug a pit, and he dug it up, and he will fall into the hole that he made. 17 His labor will return unto his head, and his injustice will come down on the top of his head. 18 I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness, and I will sing to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

8FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF THE WINEPRESS, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth, because your magnificence was lifted up far above the heavens. 3 From the mouth of infants and nursing babies you created praise, on account of your enemies, to destroy the enemy and the avenger. 4 Because I will see the heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you laid down. 5 What is a mana that you remember him? Or a son of a man that you observe him? 6 You made him somewhat less than angels; you crowned him with glory and honor. 7 And you appointed him over the works of your hands. You arranged all things under his feet, 8 all sheep and oxen, and even still the livestock of the plains, 9 the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, the creatures that go through the paths of the seas. 10 O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth.

9FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETS OF THE SON, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart. I will set out in detail all your marvelous deeds. 3 I will be cheerful and rejoice exceedingly in you. I will sing to your name, O Highest One! 4 When my enemy is turned away backwards, they will be weak and perish from your face, 5 because you executed my judgment and my cause. You sat upon the throne, you who decides righteousness. 6 You rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one perished. You blotted out their name for eternity, and for eternity of eternity.[2] 7 The swords of the enemy finally came to an end, and you took down their cities. The memory of them perished with a sound. 8 But the Lord remains for eternity. He prepared his throne with judgment. 9 And he will judge the inhabited world with righteousness. He will judge the peoples with uprightness. 10 And the Lord became a place of refuge for the poor, a helper in the times in affliction. 11 And let the ones who know your name hope in you, because you did not leave behind the ones seeking you, O Lord. 12 Sing to the Lord who dwells in Zion. Report his practices among the nations, 13 because the one who demands an account for bloodshed remembered them. He did not forget the entreaty of the poor. 14 Have mercy on me, O Lord. See my lowliness from my enemies. You are the one who lifts me from the gates of death, 15 that I would proclaim all your praises among the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice greatly at your salvation. 16 The nations were stuck in the destruction that they made; in this trap, which they hid, their foot is caught. 17 The Lord is known as the one making judgments; the sinful one is caught in the works of his hands. 18 Let the sinners be turned back into Hades, all the nations that forget God. 19 For the poor one will not be completely forgotten. The endurance of the poor ones will not perish for eternity. 20 Rise up, O Lord. Do not let a person be strengthened. Let the nations be judged before you.[3] 21 Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them. Let the nations know that they are mere humans. 22 a Why, O Lord, have you withdrawn far from here? You disregard in seasons in affliction 23 When the ungodly one is arrogant, the poor one is burned. They are caught in the counsels with which they devise, 24 because the sinner praises himself in the desires of his soul, and the one doing wrong blesses himself. 25 The sinful one angered the Lord. According to the magnitude of his wrath he will not seek God. God is not before him. 26 His ways are profane in every season. Your judgments are removed from his face. He will gain dominion over all his enemies. 27 For he said in his heart, “I will not be afflicted, from generation to generation I will be without evil.” 28 Him whose curse and bitterness and guile fill his mouth, under his tongue are trouble and distress. 29 He takes a position in ambush with the wealthy, in hidden places to kill the innocent one. His eyes gaze steadily toward the poor one. 30 He lies in wait with concealment as a lion in its den. He lies in wait to snatch away the poor, to snatch away the poor when he drags him in his net. In his trap 31 he will make him lowly. He will stoop down and fall when he gains dominion over the poor. 32 For he said in his heart, “God will forget; he turned away his face with the result that he does not see in the end.” 33 Rise up, O Lord God. Lift up your hand. Do not forget the poor. 34 On what behalf did the ungodly provoke God? For he said in his heart, “He will not seek.” 35 You see, for you will perceive distress and anger, to give them over into your hands. Therefore the poor one has been abandoned to you; for the orphan you were a helper. 36 Crush the arm of the sinner and evil one. His sin will be sought for, and he will not be found because of it. 37 The Lord will rule for eternity and for eternity of eternity. The nations will perish from his earth. 38 The Lord heard the desire of the poor ones. Your ear paid heed to the preparation of their heart, 39 to judge for the orphan and for the low, so a person does not proceed further to boast upon the earth.

10I have trusted in the Lord. How will you say to my soul, “Flee to the mountains as a sparrow”? 2 because, look, the sinners stretched a bow; they prepared arrows for the quiver to strike down the upright in heart on a moonless night, 3 because that which you created they took down. But the righteous, what did he do? 4 The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord, his throne is in the heavens. His eyes gaze steadily upon the poor one. His eyes examine well the sons of humans. 5 The Lord examines well the righteous one and the ungodly one. But the one who loves injustice hates his own soul. 6 He will rain snares upon the sinners. Fire and sulphur and wind of a storm will be the portion of their cup, 7 because the Lord is righteous and he loved righteous actions. His face saw uprightness.

11FOR THE END, UPON THE EIGHTH, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 Save me, O Lord, because the holy one has come to an end, because the truths have diminished from the sons of humans. 3 Each person spoke vanities to his neighbor. deceitful lips spoke in heart and in heart. 4 May the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips and a boasting tongue, 5 those who said, “We are powerful with respect to our tongue; our lips are from us. Who is our lord?” 6 “From the distress of the needy, and from the groaning of the poor ones, I will now stand up,” says the Lord. “I will set him in salvation; I will speak openly for him.” 7 The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles, like silver, having been purged with fire, tested in the earth, cleansed seven-fold. 8 You, O Lord, will guard us, and you will preserve us from this generation and for eternity. 9 The ungodly ones walk around in a circle. According to your height you treated with much care the sons of humans.

12FOR THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 How long, O Lord, will you forget me completely? How long will you turn away your face from me? 3 How long will I set counsels in my soul, which are like griefs in my heart for days? How long will my enemy be raised up over me? 4 Look! Give ear to me, O Lord, my God! Illuminate my eyes, lest I fall asleep into death, 5 lest my enemy say, “I was strong against him,” lest the ones who are afflicting me rejoice exceedingly if I am shaken. 6 But I placed my hope in your mercy. My heart will rejoice exceedingly in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, the one who has done well to me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.

13The foolish said in his heart, “There is no God.” They destroyed and were abhorred in their practices. There is no one doing goodness; there is not even one. 2 The Lord looked out from the heavens upon the sons of humans, to see if there is one who understands or one who seeks out God. 3 All turned aside together. They became useless. There is not one doing goodness; there is not even one. Their throat is an opened grave. With their tongues they have dealt treacherously with one another. The poison of asps is under their lips, whose mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are quick to pour out blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and they know not the way of peace. There is no fear of God before their eyes. 4 Will they not understand, all the ones who are working injustice, who devour my people like the eating of bread? They cannot call upon the Lord. 5 In that place they were afraid with a fear which was not a fear, because God is among the righteous generation. 6 The counsel of the poor one you disgraced, because the Lord is his hope. 7 Who will give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When the Lord returns the captivity of his people, let Jacob rejoice exceedingly, and let Israel be cheerful.

14O Lord, who will dwell in your quarters? And who will dwell on your holy mountain? 2 The one going without blame and working righteousness; the one speaking truth in his heart. 3 He who does not beguile with his tongue, nor does evil against his neighbor, and he does not take up a reproach against those near to him. 4 The one acting wickedly is scorned before him, but those fearing the Lord he honors. He is one who swears an oath to his neighbor and does not break faith. 5 He did not give his money for interest, and he did not take gifts against the innocent. The one who does these things will not be shaken for eternity.

15Guard me, O Lord, because upon you I placed my hope. 2 I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord.” 3 To the holy ones who are in his earth he magnified all his decrees among them. 4 Their weaknesses were increased. After these things, they were quickened. I will not gather their gatherings from murders, nor will I ever remember their names through my lips. 5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. You are the one who restores my inheritance to me. 6 The measured portions fell upon me in the best ways. For my inheritance is also best for me. 7 I will bless the Lord, the one who causes me to understand. Moreover, during the night my mind trained me. 8 I saw the Lord in front, before me through everything, because he is from my right side, that I would not be shaken. 9 On account of this, my heart was cheerful, and my tongue rejoiced exceedingly. Moreover, my flesh will dwell in hope, 10 because you will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will you give your holy one to see destruction. 11 You made known to me ways of life. You will make me full of cheer with your face. There are delights at your right side completely.

16Hear, O Lord, my righteous cause. Give heed to my entreaty. Pay attention to my prayer, which is not with deceitful lips. 2 Let my judgment come out from your face. Let my eyes see uprightness. 3 You tested my heart; you observed during the night; you purged me, and injustice was not found in me. 4 In order that my mouth would not speak the works of humans, because of the words of your lips, I guarded against stubborn ways. 5 Establish my steps in your paths, so my steps are not shaken. 6 I cried aloud, because you heard me, O God. Bend your ear to me and give ear to my words. 7 Magnify your mercy, the one who saves those who place their hope upon you from those who have stood against your right hand. 8 Guard me as the apple of your eye. Shelter me in the protection of your wings, 9 from the face of the ungodly who afflicted me. My enemies surrounded my soul; 10 they enclosed themselves with their stiff fat; their mouth spoke arrogance. 11 While casting me out, they now encircled me; they set their eyes to turn me in the earth. 12 They took me up as a lion ready for the prey, and as a cub in the den in hidden places. 13 Rise up, O Lord. Anticipate them and overthrow them. Rescue my soul from the ungodly with your large sword, 14 from the enemies of your hand, O Lord. Remove them from the earth; distribute them in their life. And their belly was filled with the things you have hidden. They were satisfied with what belongs to pigs, and they left the remainder to their infants. 15 But I will see your face in righteousness. I will be satisfied with the seeing of your glory.

17FOR THE END, OF DAVID, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, THAT WHICH HE SPOKE TO THE LORD, THE WORDS OF THIS SONG, IN THE DAY IN WHICH THE LORD RESCUED HIM FROM THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES AND FROM THE HAND OF SAUL. 2 AND HE SAID, “I love you, O Lord, my strength. 3 The Lord is my strength and my refuge and my savior. My God is a helper, and I will hope in him, my protector and the horn of salvation, my helper. 4 Praising, I will call upon the Lord, and I will be saved from my enemies. 5 Pains of death surrounded me, and torrents of lawlessness troubled me.[4] 6 Pains of Hades encircled me. Snares of death came near to me. 7 And when I was afflicted, I called upon the Lord, and to my God I cried aloud. He heard my voice from his holy temple, and my crying before him will enter into his ears. 8 And the earth was shaken and was trembling. And the foundations of the mountains were stirred up and shaken, because God was angered with them. 9 Smoke went up with his wrath, and fire burst into flame before him. Coals were kindled from him. 10 And he bent the heavens and came down. And darkness was under his feet. 11 And he mounted upon cherubim and flew; he flew upon the wings of the wind. 12 And he set darkness concealing him in a circle around him; his tent is a dark water in clouds of sky. 13 From the brightness before him, the clouds go through, hail and coals of fire. 14 And the Lord thundered from the heavens, and the most high gave his voice. 15 And he dispatched arrows and scattered them, and he multiplied lightning strikes and confounded them. 16 And the running waters of the rivers were seen, and the foundations of the inhabited world were uncovered from your censure, O Lord, from the breathing of the wind of your wrath. 17 He dispatched from the heights and took me; he drew me to himself from many waters. 18 He will rescue me from my strong enemies, and from those who hate me, because they were stronger than me. 19 They took advantage of me in the day of my illtreatment, and the Lord became my support. 20 And he led me into broad spaces. He will rescue me because he wanted me. 21 He will deliver me from my mighty enemies and from those who hate me. And the Lord will repay to me according to my righteousness; and according to the purity of my hands he will repay me, 22 because I kept the ways of the Lord, and I did not act impiously from my God, 23 because all His judgments are before me, and his duties have not departed from me. 24 And I will be without blame with him, and I will guard from my lawlessness. 25 And the Lord will give back to me according to my righteousness and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes. 26 With the holy one you will be holy, and with the innocent man you will be innocent, 27 and with the chosen you will be chosen, and with the twisted you will twist about, 28 because you will save a low people, and the eyes of the arrogant you will lower. 29 Because you will enlighten my lamp, O Lord; O my God, you will enlighten my darkness. 30 Because in you I will be rescued from the gang of raiders, and in my God I will scale the city wall. 31 As for my God, his way is blameless. The oracles of the Lord have been purged in fire. He is protector of all those who hope in him. 32 For who is God except the Lord? And who is God except our God? 33 God is the one who girds me with power, and he set my way blameless. 34 He is the one who establishes my feet as a deer and causes me to stand upon the high places; 35 teaching my hands for war, and he set my arms as a brazen bow. 36 And you gave to me a shield of my salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your teaching finally set me right again. And your teaching itself will teach me. 37 You widened my steps under me, and my footprints were not weak. 38 I will pursue my enemies and seize upon them. And I will not turn back until they come to an end. 39 I will press them, and they will not be able to stand; they will fall under my feet. 40 And you girded me with power for war. You bound the feet of all those who rise up against me under me. 41 And with regard to my enemies, you gave to me their backside, and those who hated me you destroyed utterly. 42 They cried aloud, and there was not one who saves them against the Lord, and he did not hear them. 43 And I will crush them like dust at the face of the wind; as clay spread out I will smooth them. 44 You will rescue me from arguments with the people; you will appoint me for the head of nations; a people whom I did not understand served me. 45 For a report of the ear, they obeyed me. Foreign children lied to me. 46 Foreign children wore out and became lame from their paths. 47 The Lord lives! And blessed is my God! Let the God of my salvation be exalted! 48 O God, the one who gives vengeance to me and places peoples under me, 49 my deliverer from angry enemies, from those who rise up against me. You will raise me up. From the unjust man you will rescue me. 50 On account of this, I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Lord. And I will sing psalms to your name. 51 God is magnifying the salvation of his king and making mercy to his anointed one, to David and to his seed until eternity.”[5]

18FOR THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 The heavens set out in detail the glory of God. And the firmament reports the creation of his hands. 3 Day to day spits out speech, and night to night reports knowledge. 4 There are no speeches nor words in which their voices are not heard. 5 Into all the earth their voice went out, and their words into the ends of the inhabited world. 6 In the sun he has placed his tent. And he, as a bridegroom going out from his bridal chamber, will rejoice exceedingly, as a giant to run its course. 7 From the top of the heavens is its going out, and its end is until the top of the the heavens. And there is none who will be hidden from its heat. 8 The law of the Lord is blameless, turning about souls. The testimony of the Lord is faithful, making infants wise. 9 The duties of the Lord are right, cheering the heart. The commandment of the Lord is bright, illuminating the eyes. 10 The fear of the Lord is pure, remaining for eternity of eternity. The judgments of the Lord are true, having been vindicated together. 11 They are desirable beyond gold and much costly stone, and sweeter than honey and honeycomb. 12 Indeed, your servant guards them; in the keeping of them there is much recompense. 13 Who will understand transgressions? Cleanse me from my hidden ways. 14 And spare your servant from strangers. If they do not gain dominion over me, then I will be blameless, and I will be cleansed from great sin. 15 The words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart will be for good pleasure before you through everything, O Lord, my helper and my redeemer.

19FOR THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 May the Lord hear you in the day of affliction. May the name of the God of Jacob shield you. 3 May he dispatch to you help from the holy place, and may he help you from Zion. 4 May he remember your every sacrifice, and let him increase your whole burnt offering. 5 May he give to you according to your heart, and may he fulfill your every plan. 6 We should rejoice exceedingly in your salvation, and we will be magnified in the name of our God. May the Lord fulfill all your requests. 7 Now I understood that the Lord saved his anointed one. He will hear him from his holy heavens. In power is the salvation of his right hand. 8 These glory in chariots, and those in horses, but we will be magnified in the name of the Lord, our God. 9 They were bound hand and foot and fell. But we stood up and were established again. 10 O Lord, save your king, and hear us in whatever we will call upon you today.

20FOR THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 O Lord, the king will be cheerful in your power, and for your salvation he will rejoice very much. 3 You gave to him the desire of his soul, and the petition of his lips you have not deprived him. 4 For you came near to him with blessings of kindness; you set upon his head a crown made from costly stone. 5 He asked you for life, and you gave him length of days for eternity of eternity. 6 Great is his glory with your salvation; you will place upon him glory and magnificence, 7 because you will give him blessing for eternity of eternity; you will make him cheerful in joy with your face. 8 For the king hopes upon the Lord, and in the mercy of the Most High he will not be shaken. 9 May your hand be found against all your enemies. May your right hand find all those who are hating you. 10 You will set them as an oven of fire for the time of your face, O Lord. With your wrath you will confound them, and fire will devour them. 11 You will destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from the sons of humans, 12 because they inclined evil things against you; they devised a will that they were not able to establish. 13 For you will set them back with your remnant. You will prepare their face. 14 Be lifted high, O Lord, with your power. We will sing and make psalms of your sovereign powerful acts.

21FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF THE HELP OF THE EARLY MORNING, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 O God, my God, attend to me. For what purpose did you abandon me? Far away from my salvation are the words of my transgressions.[6] 3 O my God, I will cry aloud for days to you, and you will not hear; and during the night, there is nothing for my folly. 4 But you, the praise of Israel, dwell in the holy place. 5 Upon you our fathers hoped; they hoped, and you rescued them. 6 To you they cried aloud, and they were saved. Upon you they hoped, and they were not disgraced. 7 But I am a worm and not a person, a reproach of humanity and an object of contempt of the people. 8 All the ones who look at me turn up their nose at me. They speak with their lips; they shake their head, 9 “He hoped upon the Lord; let him rescue him; let him save him, because he wants him.” 10 For you are the one who drew me out from the womb. You are my hope from the breasts of my mother. 11 Upon you I was cast from the womb. From my mother’s belly, you are my God. Do not turn away from me, for affliction is near, 12 because there is no one who helps. 13 Young bulls encircled me. Many fat bulls surrounded me. 14 They opened their mouth against me, as a lion that snatches away and roars. 15 I was poured out like water, and all my bones were scattered. My heart became like beeswax melting in the middle of my belly. 16 My strength was dried up like an earthen vessel, and my tongue has been glued to my throat. You led me into the dust of death. 17 For many dogs encircled me. A gathering of those doing evil surrounded me. They pierced my hands and feet.[7] 18 They can count all my bones; they perceived and gazed upon me. 19 They distributed my garments among themselves, and they cast a lot for my clothing. 20 But you, O Lord, do not delay my rescue; give heed to my help. 21 Rescue my soul from the sword, and my unique one from the hand of a dog. 22 Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my lowliness from the horn of the unicorn. 23 I will set out in detail your name to my brothers. In the middle of the assembly I will sing of you. 24 Those who fear the Lord, praise him all together. Seed of Jacob, glorify him. Let the seed of Israel fear him all together. 25 For he did not scorn nor was he irritated with the entreaty of the poor, nor did he turn his face away from me. And when I cried out to him, he gave ear to me. 26 From you is my praise in the great assembly. I will render my prayers before those who fear him. 27 The poor will eat and be satisfied. The ones who seek him will praise the Lord. Their hearts will live for eternity of eternity. 28 All the ends of the earth will remember and return to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will worship before him. 29 For the kingdom is the Lord’s, and he is Lord over the nations. 30 All the fat of the earth ate and worshiped before him. All the ones who come down into the earth bowed down. And my soul lives for him. 31 My seed will serve him. The generation that is coming will be reported to the Lord. 32 They will report his righteousness to the people who are being born, whom the Lord made.

22The Lord shepherds me, and nothing will be lacking for me. 2 In a place of tender grass, there he causes me to dwell. At a river of rest he nourishes me. 3 He turns around my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness on account of His name. 4 For even if I should go in the middle of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil things, because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they exhort me. 5 You prepare before me a table opposite those who afflict me. You anoint my head with olive oil. And your drinking cup is satisfying as the best. 6 Your mercy will pursue me all the days of my life, and my dwelling will be in the house of the Lord for the length of days.

23The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness of it, the inhabited world and all those who dwell within it. 2 He laid the foundation of it upon the sea. Upon rivers he prepared it. 3 Who will go up into the mountain of the Lord, and who will stand in His holy place? 4 The innocent one with respect to his hands, and the clean one with respect to his heart, who does not take up his soul with vanity and does not swear with cunning against his neighbor. 5 This one will receive a blessing from the Lord and mercy from God, his savior. 6 This is the generation of those seeking him, of those seeking the face of the God of Jacob. 7 Lift up the gates, those rulers of you. Lift eternal gates, and the King of glory will enter.[8] 8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord, mighty and strong, the Lord, strong in battle. 9 Lift up the gates, those rulers of you. Lift eternal gates, and the King of glory will enter. 10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of mighty powers, he is this King of glory!

24To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, upon you I have trusted; do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies laugh at me. 3 Indeed, all those who wait upon you will not be put to shame. Let those who act lawlessly to no end be ashamed. 4 Lord, make known to me your ways, and teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth. Teach me, because you are God, my savior, and I await you the entire day. 6 Remember your compassions, and your mercies, because they are from eternity. 7 Do not remember the sin and ignorance of my youth. According to your mercy remember me, on account of your kindness, O Lord. 8 Good and righteous is the Lord. On account of this he instructs in the way those who are sinning. 9 He will lead humble ones in justice. He will teach the humble one his ways. 10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth for the ones who are seeking out his covenant and his testimonies. 11 On account of your name, O Lord, also pardon my sin, for it is much. 12 Who is the person who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way that he selected. 13 His soul will live with good things, and his seed will inherit the earth. 14 The Lord is the strength of those who fear him; the name of the Lord, of those who fear him. His covenant is for showing to them. 15 My eyes through all circumstances are on the Lord, because he will draw out my feet from the trap. 16 Look upon me and have mercy on me, because I am alone and poor. 17 The afflictions of my heart were multiplied; deliver me from my tribulations. 18 See my lowliness and my trouble. Forgive all my sins. 19 See my enemies, because they were increased, and they hated me with an unjust hatred. 20 Guard my soul and rescue me. Do not let me be put to shame, because I placed my hope in you. 21 Innocent ones and upright ones joined fast together to me, because I awaited you, O Lord. 22 O God, redeem Israel from all his afflictions.

25Judge me, O Lord, because I went in my guilelessness, and I shall not be shaken when hoping in the Lord. 2 Scrutinize me, O Lord, and test me; purge my mind and my heart, 3 because your mercy is before my eyes, and I was well pleased with your truth. 4 I did not sit with the assembly of vanity, and I will never enter with those transgressing the law. 5 I hated the assembly of those doing evil, and with the ungodly I will never sit. 6 I will wash my hands with innocent deeds, and I will go around your altar 7 to hear a voice of praise and to describe all your marvelous deeds. 8 O Lord, I love the goodly appearance of your house and the place of the tent of your glory. 9 Do not destroy my soul together with the ungodly, and my life with men of bloodshed, 10 in whose hands is lawlessness; their right hand is full of bribes. 11 But I went in my guilelessness. Redeem me and have mercy upon me. 12 For my foot stands in uprightness. In the assembly I will bless you, O Lord.

26The Lord is my light and my savior. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life. From whom shall I fear? 2 When evildoers came up to me to eat my flesh, the ones afflicting me and my enemies, they were weak and fell. 3 If an army is set up against me, my heart will not fear. If a battle rises up against me, in this circumstance I hope in God. 4 One thing I asked from the Lord, this I will seek out: that I dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life; that I behold the pleasantness of the Lord and visit his temple. 5 For he hid me in a tent in the day of my evils. He sheltered me in the concealment of his tent. On a rock he lifted me. 6 And now look, he lifted my head over my enemies. I came around and sacrificed in his tent a sacrifice of shouting. I will sing, and I will sing psalms to the Lord. 7 Give ear, O Lord, to my voice with which I cried out. Have mercy upon me, and give ear to me. 8 My heart said to you, “I sought out your face.” Your face, O Lord, I will seek. 9 Do not turn back your face from me. Do not turn around in wrath from your servant. Become my help. Do not abandon me, and do not disregard me, O God, my savior. 10 For my father and my mother abandoned me. But the Lord received me. 11 Instruct me, O Lord, with respect to your way, and lead me in a straight path on account of my enemies. 12 Do not give me over to the souls of those afflicting me, because unrighteous witnesses rose up against me, and the injustice lied within itself. 13 I will trust that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living. 14 Wait upon the Lord. Be brave, and let your heart be strengthened, and wait upon the Lord.

27To you, O Lord, I cried out. O my God, do not pass in silence over me, lest you pass in silence over me, and I will be like those who go down into the pit. 2 Give ear to the voice of my supplication when I pray to you, when I raise up my hands to your holy temple. 3 Do not draw together my soul with sinners and with those working injustice. Do not destroy me together with the ones who speak peace with their neighbor but have evil things in their hearts. 4 Give to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their practices. Give to them according to the works of their hands. Repay their recompense to them, 5 because they did not have understanding into the works of the Lord and into the works of his hands. You will destroy them, and you will never build them up. 6 Blessed is the Lord, because he heard the voice of my supplication. 7 The Lord is my helper and my protector. My heart hoped in him, and I was helped, and my flesh was refreshed; and from my will I will give thanks to him. 8 The Lord is the strength of his people and the protector of the salvation of his anointed one. 9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Shepherd them, and magnify them until eternity.

28Bring to the Lord, O children of God, bring to the Lord offspring of rams. Bring to the Lord glory and honor. 2 Bring to the Lord glory in his name. Worship the Lord in his holy court. 3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters. The God of glory thundered. The Lord is upon many waters.[9] 4 The voice of the Lord is in strength; the voice of the Lord is in majesty. 5 The voice of the Lord who breaks cedars; the Lord crushes the cedars of Lebanon. 6 And he will crush them, even Lebanon, as the young bull, and the beloved will be as the offspring of the unicorn. 7 The voice of the Lord who cuts through a flame of fire. 8 The voice of the Lord who makes the desert tremble; the Lord will shake the desert of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the Lord who creates deer and will uncover woods. In his temple everyone says, “Glory!” 10 The Lord establishes the flood, and the Lord will sit as King for eternity. 11 The Lord will give strength to his people. The Lord will bless his people with peace.

29FOR THE END, A PSALM OF A SONG OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE HOUSE, OF DAVID. 2 I lift you up, O Lord, because you answered me and did not make my enemies cheerful over me. 3 O Lord, my God, I cried aloud to you, and you healed me. 4 O Lord, you brought my soul up from Hades; you saved me from the ones who are going down into the pit. 5 Sing to the Lord, O his holy ones, and give thanks to the memory of his holiness, 6 because his wrath is in his anger, and life is in his will. Weeping will find lodging in the evening, and in the morning there will be great joy. 7 But I said in my prosperity, “I will not be shaken for eternity.” 8 O Lord, in your will provide power for my beauty. And you turned away your face, and I became troubled. 9 To you, O Lord, I will cry aloud, and to my God I will pray. 10 What use is there in my blood when I go down into destruction? Will dust give thanks to you or confess your truth? 11 The Lord heard and showed mercy upon me. The Lord became my helper. 12 You turned my mourning into joy for me. You broke through my sackcloth, and you girded me with cheer, 13 that my glory would sing psalms to you, and never ever would I be pained. O Lord, my God, I will give thanks to you for eternity.

30FOR THE END, A PSALM BY DAVID, OF DISMAY. 2 In you, O Lord, I placed my hope. Do not let me be put to shame for eternity. With your righteousness rescue me and deliver me. 3 Bend your ear to me. Be quick to deliver me. Become for me a protector God and a house of refuge to save me. 4 For you are my strength and my refuge, and on account of your name you will lead me, and you will sustain me continually. 5 Lead me out from this trap that they hid for me, because you are my protector. 6 Into your hands I will place my spirit. You will deliver me, O Lord, the God of the truth. 7 You hated the ones keeping pointlessness through vanity. But I hoped in the Lord. 8 I will rejoice greatly, and I will be cheerful in your mercy, because you observed my lowliness; you saved my soul from the tribulations. 9 And you did not enclose me in the hands of the enemy. You established my feet in the wide place. 10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, because I am afflicted. My eye was troubled in anger, my soul also, and my belly. 11 For my life came to an end with distress, and my years were weakened with groaning in poverty. My strength and my bones were troubled. 12 From all my enemies I became a reproach, and to my neighbors very much so, and I became a fear to my acquaintances. The ones looking at me outside fled from me. 13 I was forgotten from hearts like a corpse. I became like a broken vessel. 14 For I heard the censure of many, dwelling from all around, while they gathered at once against me. They deliberated to take my soul. 15 But I hoped in you, O Lord. I said, “You are my God.” 16 My portion is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies, and from the ones who are persecuting me. 17 Show forth your face upon your servant. Save me with your mercy. 18 O Lord, may I not be disgraced, because I called upon you. May the ungodly ones be put to shame and be led down into Hades. 19 Let deceitful lips be quiet, which speak against the righteous one lawlessly, with arrogance and contempt. 20 How great is the magnitude of your kindness, O Lord, which you hid for those who are fearing you. You worked matters out for those who are hoping in you, before the sons of humans. 21 Hide them in the secret place of your face from the rebellion of humanity. Shelter them in the temple from the controversy of tongues. 22 Blessed is the Lord, because he magnified his mercy in the city of siege. 23 But I said in my dismay, “I am abandoned then from the face of your eyes.” On account of this, you gave ear to the voice of my entreaty, O Lord, when I cried out to you. 24 Love the Lord, all his holy ones, because the Lord seeks out truths and repays to the ones who are making exceeding arrogance. 25 Be brave, and let your heart be strengthened, all you who are hoping in the Lord.

31Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven and whose sins were covered up. 2 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never reckon, nor is there guile in his mouth. 3 Because I was silent, my bones were worn out from my crying aloud the whole day. 4 For day and night your hand was weighed down upon me. I was turned into misery when a thorn was planted. Musical interlude 5 I made known my sin, and I did not cover up my lawlessness. I said, “I will make my sin against myself known to the Lord,” and you forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Musical interlude 6 Because of this, every holy person will pray to you at the suitable time. Surely in the flood of many waters they will not come near to him. 7 You are my place of refuge from the affliction of that which is surrounding me. You are my great joy to deliver me from the ones who are encircling me. Musical interlude 8 I will instruct you, and I will teach you in this way that you should go. I will strengthen my eye upon you. 9 Do not become as the horse and the mule, for which there is no understanding. With bridle and muzzle one compresses their jaws, which do not come near to you. 10 Many are the scourges of the sinner, but the one who hopes in the Lord will be encircled in mercy. 11 Be cheerful in the Lord, and rejoice exceedingly, O righteous ones, and boast, all the upright with respect to the heart.

32Rejoice exceedingly, O righteous ones, in the Lord. Praise is fitting for the upright ones. 2 Give thanks to the Lord with lyre, with ten-stringed harp sing to him. 3 Sing to him a new song, sing well with a loud noise. 4 For the word of the Lord is righteous, and all his works are in faithfulness. 5 He loves mercy and justice. The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made firm, and by the spiritb of his mouth, all their power. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea as a bag. He sets the deep in treasures. 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord. And from him let all the ones who are dwelling upon the inhabited world be shaken. 9 For he spoke, and it became. He commanded, and it was created. 10 The Lord scatters the councils of the nations. And he sets aside the deliberations of the people and rejects the councils of the rulers. 11 But the counsel of the Lord remains for eternity. The deliberations of his heart from generation to generation. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, his people whom he chose for an inheritance for himself. 13 From the heavens the Lord looked down. He saw all the sons of humans. 14 From his prepared dwelling place he looked down upon all the ones who are inhabiting the earth, 15 the one who alone formed their hearts, the one who has understanding of all their works. 16 A king is not saved because of much power, and a mighty one will not be saved in the magnitude of his strength. 17 The horse is false for salvation. And in the magnitude of its power he will not be saved. 18 Look, the eyes of the Lord are upon the ones who fear him, the ones who place their hope upon his mercy, 19 to rescue their souls from death, and to continually sustain them in famine. 20 Our soul waits upon the Lord, because he is our helper and protector, 21 because our heart will be cheerful in him; and we put our hope in his holy name. 22 May your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, even as we put our hope in you.

33OF DAVID, WHEN HE CHANGED HIS FACE BEFORE ABIMELECH, AND HE RELEASED HIM, AND HE DEPARTED. 2 I will bless the Lord in every occasion. Through every circumstance the praise of him will be in my mouth. 3 My soul will be commended in the Lord. Let the humble hear, and let them be cheerful. 4 Magnify the Lord with me, and lift up high his name together. 5 I sought out the Lord, and he heard me, and he rescued me from all of my sojourning. 6 Come to him, and you will be enlightened, and your faces will never be disgraced. 7 This poor person cried out, and the Lord heard him, and he saved him from all of his afflictions. 8 The angel of the Lord will encamp in a circle around the ones who fear him, and he will rescue them. 9 Taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who hopes in Him. 10 Fear the Lord, all you holy ones of him, because there is no deficiency for the ones who are fearing him. 11 The rich begin to beg and became hungry. But the ones seeking out the Lord will not be lacking any good thing. Musical interlude 12 Come, you children. Hear me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 13 What person is there who wants life and loves to see good days? 14 Stop your tongue from evil, and your lips to not speak guile. 15 Turn from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. 16 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears listen to their entreaty. 17 But the face of the Lord is against those doing evil things, to destroy utterly the memory of them from the earth. 18 The righteous ones cried aloud, and the Lord heard them. And he rescued them from all of their afflictions. 19 The Lord is near to the ones who have been broken with respect to their heart, and he will save the low in spirit. 20 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but he will rescue them from all of them. 21 The Lord guards all their bones. Not one of them will be crushed. 22 Evil is the death of sinners, and the ones who hate the righteous will offend. 23 The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants, and all those who hope in him go shall not astray.

34Judge, O Lord, the ones who are doing wrong to me. Make war on the ones who are making war on me. 2 Seize a weapon and a shield, and rise up for my aid. 3 Pour out the sword, and enclose those persecuting me from opposition. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.” 4 May they be ashamed and turned about, those who seek my life. May they be turned away backwards and disgraced, all those who plot evil things against me. 5 Let them be like the chaff in the face of the wind, and the angel of the Lord afflicting them. 6 Let their way become darkness and fall, and the angel of the Lord pursuing them. 7 For they hid the destruction of their trap against me for nothing. Without cause they reviled my life. 8 Let the trap of which they do not know come to them; and the snare, which they hid, let it capture them, and in the trap, they will fall with it. 9 But my soul will rejoice exceedingly in the Lord. It will be delighted in his salvation. 10 All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like you, rescuing the needy from the hand of those stronger than him, and the needy and poor from those robbing him?” 11 Unrighteous witnesses rising up ask me about what they do not know. 12 They repay me bad things for good, and childlessness for my life. 13 But I, when they troubled me, was wearing sackcloth and was lowering my soul with a fast; and my prayer returned into my chest. 14 As for a neighbor, as for our brother, thus I was well pleased. As one mourning and looking sullen, thus I was lowering myself. 15 And they were cheerful and were gathered together against me. They gathered together scourges against me, and I did not know. They were separated and not pained in heart. 16 They tempted me. They mocked me with scorn. They gnashed their teeth against me. 17 O Lord, how long will you observe? Restore my life from their wrongdoing, my unique life from lions. 18 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, in the great assembly. With the mighty people I will praise you. 19 May those who are hating me not rejoice over me vainly, those hating me for nothing and winking with their eyes. 20 For indeed, to me they were speaking peaceful things, but in wrath they were devising treachery. 21 And they widened their mouth against me. They said, “Good, good! Our eyes saw!” 22 You saw, O Lord. Do not pass over in silence. O Lord, do not withdraw from me. 23 Awake, O Lord, and pay attention to my judgment. My God and my Lord, pay attention to my cause. 24 Judge me, O Lord, according to your righteousness, O Lord, my God, let them not rejoice over me! 25 May they not say in their hearts, “Good, good for our life.” Nor may they say, “We devoured him.” 26 May they be dishonored and shamed at once, those who rejoice over my reproaches; those who boast against me, let them wear disgrace and shame. 27 May they rejoice exceedingly, and may they be cheerful, those who want my righteousness; and let them say through everything, “Let the Lord be magnified,” those who want the peace of his servant. 28 And my tongue will meditate on your righteousness, your praise the whole day.

35FOR THE END, BY DAVID, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. 2 The lawless one, to sin, says in himself that there is no fear of God before his eyes. 3 For he disguised his lawlessness before him to find and to hate. 4 The words of his mouth are lawlessness and guile. He did not wish to understand to do good. 5 He has regard for lawlessness in his bed. He was near to every way that is not good. And with badness he was not angry. 6 O Lord, your mercy is in the heavens, and your truth is up to the clouds. 7 And righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like a great deep. O Lord, you will save humans and animals. 8 How you multiplied your mercy, O God. And the sons of humans hope in the shade of your wings. 9 They will be satisfied from the wealth of your house, and you will give drink to them from the fullness of your luxury. 10 For from you is a fountain of life; in your light we will see light. 11 Stretch out your mercy to those who know you, and your righteousness to those who are upright in heart. 12 Do not let a foot of arrogance come to me, and may the hand of sinners not afflict me. 13 There all the ones who work lawlessness fell. They were driven out and are surely never able to stand.

36Do not be provoked to jealousy with those acting wickedly, nor envy the ones who do evil. 2 For like grass they will quickly wither, and like garden herbs of tender grass they will quickly fail. 3 Hope in the Lord and do goodness. Dwell upon the land, and you will be shepherded in its wealth. 4 Delight in the Lord, and he will give to you the requests of your heart. 5 Uncover to the Lord your way, and hope in him, and he will do it. 6 And he will carry out your righteousness as light and your justice as the midday sun. 7 Submit to the Lord, and ask him. Do not be provoked to jealousy with the one who prospers in his life, with a person who does lawlessness. 8 Cease from anger and abandon wrath. Do not be provoked to jealousy to act wickedly. 9 For the ones who act wickedly will be destroyed. But the ones who wait upon the Lord, they will inherit the earth. 10 And yet a little while, and the sinner will surely not exist, and you will seek for his place, and you will surely not find him. 11 But the meek will inherit the land, and they will delight in the multitude of peace.[10] 12 The sinner will watch closely the righteous one and will gnash his teeth against him. 13 But the Lord will laugh at him, because he foresees that his day will come. 14 The sinners drew a sword; they stretched their bow, to strike down the needy one and the poor one, to slay the upright in heart. 15 May their sword enter into their own heart, and may their arrows be crushed. 16 Better is the little for the righteous one than the great wealth of sinners. 17 For the arms of sinners will be crushed, but the Lord supports the righteous ones. 18 The Lord knows the ways of the blameless ones, and their inheritance will be for eternity. 19 They will not be put to shame in the evil time, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied. 20 For the sinners will perish; and the enemies of the Lord, at the same time with their being glorified and lifted up, are coming to an end; like smoke they came to an end. 21 The sinner borrows and does not pay back. But the righteous is compassionate and lends. 22 For the ones who bless him will inherit the earth. But the ones who call down curses upon him will be utterly destroyed. 23 The steps of a person are directed from the Lord, and he will delight in his way. 24 When he falls, he is not dashed down, because the Lord supports his hand. 25 I was once younger, for also I grew old, and I did not see the righteous one forsaken, nor his seed seeking food. 26 The whole day he shows mercy and lends, and his seed will have a blessing. 27 Turn from evil and do good. Dwell for eternity of eternity. 28 For the Lord loves justice, and he will not forsake his holy ones. They will be kept for eternity. The blameless will be avenged, and the seed of the ungodly will be utterly destroyed. 29 But the righteous ones will inherit the earth and dwell upon it for eternity of eternity. 30 The mouth of the righteous one will meditate on wisdom, and his tongue will speak justice. 31 The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps will not be tripped up. 32 The sinner looks at the righteous one and seeks to kill him. 33 But the Lord will never ever leave him into his hands, nor ever condemn him when he judges against him. 34 Wait upon the Lord and keep his way, and he will raise you up to inherit the earth. You will see when sinners are utterly destroyed. 35 I did see an ungodly person exalted exceedingly and magnified as the cedars of Lebanon. 36 But I passed by, and look, he was not there. And I sought for him, but his place was not found. 37 Keep innocence and see uprightness, because there is posterity for a peaceful person. 38 But the lawless ones will be utterly destroyed together. The posterity of the ungodly will be utterly destroyed. 39 But salvation of the righteous is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of tribulation. 40 The Lord will help them and rescue them. And he will deliver them from sinners and save them, because they hoped in him.

37aA PSALM BY DAVID, FOR REMEMBERING CONCERNING THE SABBATH. 2 O Lord, do not reprove me with your wrath, nor in your anger discipline me. 3 For you planted your arrows in me, and you strengthened your hand against me. 4 And there is no healing in my flesh from the face of your anger. There is no peace for my bones from the face of my sins. 5 For my lawless acts surpassed my head; just like a heavy burden they are weighed down upon me. 6 My bruises reek and are rotten from the face of my folly. 7 I am troubled and bent over completely; the whole day I go around looking sullen. 8 For my soul is filled with mockeries, and there is no healing in my flesh. 9 I was mistreated and made low, to the extreme. I howl from the groaning of my heart. 10 And all my longing is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you. 11 My heart is troubled, my strength forsakes me, and the light of my eyes is not with me. 12 My friends and my neighbor come near and stand opposite of me. And the ones who are nearest to me stand afar. 13 And they do violence, the ones who seek my life, and the ones who seek evil things for me. They speak vanities, and they meditate on treacheries the whole day. 14 But I do not hear like a deaf person, and I am like a speechless person not opening his mouth. 15 And I have become like a person not hearing and not having reproofs in his mouth. 16 For in you I place my hope, O Lord. You will hear, O Lord, my God. 17 For I said, “What if my enemies rejoice over me, and boast against me when my foot shakes?” 18 For I am prepared for scourges, and my pain is before me through everything. 19 For I will confess my lawlessness, and I will be anxious on behalf of my sin. 20 But my enemies live and have been strengthened more than me. The ones who hate me unjustly were multiplied. 21 The ones who repay evil things for good deeds accused me falsely, since I was pursuing righteousness. 22 Do not abandon me, O Lord, my God. Do not withdraw from me. 23 Give heed to my help, O Lord of my salvation.

38FOR THE END, FOR JEDUTHUN, A SONG BY DAVID. 2 I said, “I will guard my ways, not to sin with my tongue. I set a guard for my mouth when the sinner was present before me.” 3 I was rendered speechless and made low. I was silent from good things, and my pain was renewed. 4 My heart was warmed within me. With my meditation a fire burned. I spoke with my tongue, 5 “Make known to me, O Lord, my end, and the number of my days—what is it?— that I would know what I am lacking. 6 Look, you have made my days old, and my actual being is like nothing before you. Surely every living person is vanity altogether. Musical interlude 7 Indeed a person goes through life as an image. Surely they are troubled in vain. A person stores up treasure, and he does not know for whom he will gather them. 8 And now, what is my hope? Is it not the Lord? My actual being is from you. 9 From all my lawless acts rescue me. You delivered me as a reproach for a fool. 10 I was rendered speechless, and I do not open my mouth, because you are the one who made me. 11 Remove from me your scourges. From the strength of your hand I came to an end. 12 With reproofs because of lawlessness you discipline a person. You melt his life as a spider. Surely every person is troubled in vain. Musical interlude 13 Give ear to my prayer, and pay attention to my entreaty. Do not pass over my tears in silence, because I am a sojourner in the land and sojourning in a strange place as all my fathers. 14 Leave me, that I would recover before I depart and exist no more.”

39FOR THE END, A PSALM BY DAVID. 2 Waiting, I waited upon the Lord, and he paid heed to me and gave ear to my entreaty. 3 He raised me from the pit of distress and from the muddy clay. He established my feet upon a rock and directed my steps. 4 He set into my mouth a new song, a hymn to our God. Many will see and fear, and they will hope upon the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man whose hope is the name of the Lord. He does not look to vanity and false madness. 6 You, O Lord, my God, made your wondrous things abundant. And in your thoughts there is no one who will be likened. I reported and spoke. They were increased beyond number. 7 You did not want sacrifice and offering, but you restored a body to me. You did not ask for whole burnt offering and an offering concerning sin.[11] 8 Then I said, “Look, I have arrived. In the scroll of the document it has been written concerning me. 9 I wish to do your will, O my God, and your law is in the middle of my heart.” 10 I brought the good news of righteousness in the great assembly. Look, never ever will I restrain my lips, O Lord, as you know. 11 I did not hide my righteousness in my heart. I spoke your truthfulness and your deliverance. I did not hide your mercy and your truthfulness from the great congregation. 12 And you, O Lord, do not keep away your compassions from me. Your mercy and your truthfulness support me through everything. 13 For evil things that have no number surrounded me. My lawless acts seized me, and I was not able to see. They increased beyond the hairs of my head, and my heart forsook me. 14 Be well pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. O Lord, pay attention to help me. 15 May they be disgraced and shamed at once, those who seek my life to remove it. May they be turned backwards, and may they be shamed, those who want evil things for me. 16 Let them get their shame paid back immediately, those who say to me, “Good, good!” 17 May they rejoice exceedingly and may they be cheerful in you, all who seek you, O Lord. And let them say continually, “Let the Lord be magnified,” those who continually love your deliverance. 18 But I am needy and poor. The Lord will take care of me. You are my helper and my protector; O my God, do not delay!

40FOR THE END, A PSALM BY DAVID. 2 Blessed is the one who thinks on the needy one and the poor one. In the bad day the Lord will rescue him. 3 May the Lord keep him and bless him in the land, and may he not deliver him into the hands of his enemy. 4 May the Lord help him on his bed of pain. You turned his whole bed in his sickness. 5 I said, “O Lord, have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, because I sinned against you.” 6 My enemies said evil things against me: “When will he die and his name perish?” 7 And if he enters to see me, he speaks in vain. His heart gathers evil to himself. He goes outside and speaks falsely. 8 Together all my enemies whisper against me. Against me they plot evil things for me. 9 They placed a lawless word against me: “The one who sleeps will not add to rise up, will he?” 10 For even the person of my peace, upon whom I placed confidence, the one who eats my bread, made great treachery against me. 11 But you, O Lord, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, and I will repay them. 12 In this I did know that you have wanted me, that my enemy would never rejoice over me. 13 And you helped me because of my innocence, and you established me before you for eternity. 14 Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, from eternity and for eternity! May it be! May it be!

41FOR THE END, FOR UNDERSTANDING, BY THE SONS OF KORAH. 2 The way the deer yearns after the springs of waters, thus my soul yearns after you, O God. 3 My soul thirsts for the living God. How long will I be present and be seen before the face of God? 4 My tears became food day and night, while they spoke to me each day, “Where is your God?” 5 I remembered these things, and I poured out my soul in me, that I would go in the place of the wonderful tent, unto the house of God, in a voice of great joy, and of a sound of thanksgiving from those celebrating. 6 Why are you deeply grieved, O soul, and why do you trouble me? I hoped in God, for I will give thanks to him. My God is the deliverance of my face. 7 My soul was troubled within myself. On account of this, I will remember you from the land of Jordan and Hermon, from the small mountain. 8 Deep calls upon deep in a voice of your waterfalls. All your swells and your waves went through upon me. 9 By day the Lord commands his mercy, and by night he will make it visible; beside me is a prayer to the God of my life. 10 I will say to God, “You are my helper. Why did you forget me? Why do I go around looking sullen, while my enemy afflicts me?” 11 When my bones were crushed, the ones who were afflicting me reproached me, when they said to me each day, “Where is your God?” 12 Why are you deeply grieved, O soul, and why do you trouble me? I hoped in God, for I will give thanks to him. My God is the salvation of my face.

42Consider me, O God, and judge my cause from nations that are not holy. Rescue me from the unjust person and the treacherous one. 2 For you are my strength, O God. Why will you reject me? And why do I go around looking sullen when my enemy afflicts me? 3 Send forth your light and your truth. They guided me and led me into your holy mountain and into your tent. 4 And I will enter to the altar of God, to the God who makes my cheerful youth. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, my God, with the lyre. 5 Why are you deeply grieved, O soul, and why do you trouble me? I hoped in God, because I will give thanks to him. My God is the salvation of my face.

43FOR THE END. A PSALM BY THE SONS OF KORAH, FOR UNDERSTANDING. 2 O God, with our ears we heard. Our fathers reported to us the work that you performed in their days, in the ancient days. 3 Your hand utterly destroyed the nations. And you planted them. You afflicted the peoples. And you threw them out. 4 For they did not inherit the land with their sword, and their arm did not save them, but your right hand and your arm and the light of your face, because you were well-pleased with them. 5 You are my King and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob. 6 In you we will push our enemies, and in your name we will disdain those who rise up against us. 7 For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.b 9 In God we will give praise the whole day, and in your name we will give thanks for eternity. Musical interlude 10 But now you rejected us and put us to shame. And you will not go out among our forces. 11 You turned us backwards from our enemies. The ones who hate us were taking spoils for themselves. 12 You gave us as sheep for eating, and among the nations you scattered us. 13 You sold your people without price, and there was no abundance in their outcry. 14 You have set us as a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us. 15 You have set us for a byword among the nations, a wagging of the head among the peoples. 16 The whole day my humiliation is before me, and the disgrace of my face conceals me 17 from the voice of the one reproaching and babbling, from the face of the enemy and the one persecuting. 18 All these things came upon us, and we did not forget you. We did not do wrong in your covenant. 19 Our heart did not withdraw backwards. But you turned our paths from your way. 20 For you made us low in the place of ill treatment and covered us in the shadow of death. 21 If we had forgotten the name of our God, and if we had spread out our hands to a foreign god, 22 wouldn’t God seek out these things? For he knows the secret things of the heart. 23 For on account of you we are being killed the whole day. We are reckoned as sheep of slaughter. 24 Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end! 25 Why do you turn your face and forget our poverty and our affliction? 26 For our soul is made low to the dust. Our stomach clings to the earth. 27 Stand up, O Lord, help us, and redeem us on account of your name.

44FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF THE ALTERATIONS, BY THE SONS OF KORAH FOR UNDERSTANDING; A SONG ON BEHALF OF THE BELOVED ONE. 2 My heart emptied itself in a good word. I speak my works to the King. My tongue is the reed pen of the swift-writing scribe. 3 You are more beautiful with beauty than the sons of humans. Grace pours out in your lips. On account of this, God blesses you for eternity! 4 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, with your comeliness and your beauty. 5 Stretch your bow and prosper and reign on account of truth and gentleness and righteousness. And your right hand will guide you wonderfully. 6 Your arrows are sharpened, O mighty one, —peoples will fall under youin the heart of the enemies of the King. 7 Your throne, O God, is for eternity of eternity. The rod of your kingdom is a rod of uprightness. 8 You loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. On account of this, God, your God, anointed you with olive oil of great joy beyond your companions. 9 Myrrh and oil of myrrh and cassia are from your garments, from bastions of ivory from which they made you cheerful. 10 Daughters of kings are in your honor. The queen is near at your right side, clothed in apparel interwoven with gold, adorned with embroidery. 11 Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear. Forget your people and the house of your father. 12 For the King desired for your beauty, because he is your Lord. 13 Daughters of Tyre will bow down to him with gifts. The riches of the people of the land will entreat your face. 14 All her glory is as a daughter of the King, clothed with golden tassels, adorned with embroidery. 15 Virgins will be carried away to the King after her. Her attendants will be carried away to you. 16 They will be carried away with merriment and great joy. They will be led into the temple of the King. 17 In the place of your fathers, your sons are born. You will establish them as rulers upon all the earth. 18 They will remember your name in every generation and generation. On account of this, peoples will give thanks to you for eternity and for eternity of eternity.

45FOR THE END, A PSALM IN THE NAME OF THE SONS OF KORAH, BECAUSE OF THE HIDDEN WAYS. 2 Our God is a place of refuge and strength, a helper when afflictions find us very much. 3 On account of this, we will not fear when the earth is troubled and the mountains are transferred in the hearts of the seas. 4 Their waters roared and were stirred up; the mountains were troubled in his might. Musical interlude 5 The torrents of the river make cheerful the city of God. The Most High sanctified his habitation. 6 God is in the middle of it. It will not be shaken. God will help it with his face. 7 The nations were stirred up; kingdoms fell. He gave his voice; the earth was afflicted. 8 The Lord of powers is with us. The God of Jacob is our helper. Musical interlude 9 Come, see the works of the Lord, which he set as wonders upon the earth. 10 Removing wars until the ends of the earth, he will crush bow and shatter weapon, and he will burn shields with fire. 11 “Cease from action, and know that I am God. I will be lifted high among the nations. I will be lifted high in the earth.” 12 The Lord of powers is with us. The God of Jacob is our helper.

46FOR THE END, A PSALM IN THE NAME OF THE SONS OF KORAH. 2 All you nations, clap your hands! Shout aloud to God in a voice of great joy! 3 For the Lord Most High is to be feared, a great King over all the earth. 4 He subdued peoples for us and nations under our feet. 5 He chose us as his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob, whom he loved. Musical interlude 6 God went up in a loud shout, the Lord in the voice of a trumpet. 7 Sing psalms to our God! Sing psalms! Sing psalms to our King! Sing psalms! 8 For God is the King of all of the earth. Sing psalms intelligently! 9 God rules over the nations. God is seated upon his holy throne. 10 The rulers of the people are gathered with the God of Abraham, for God’s mighty ones of the earth are magnified very much.

47aA PSALM OF A SONG BY THE SONS OF KORAH ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE SABBATH. 2 Great is the Lord and worthy of very much praise in the city of our God, his holy mountain. 3 The mountains of Zion are for the well-rooted rejoicing of all the earth, the sides of the north wind, the city of the great King. 4 God is known in her palaces when he helps her. 5 For look, the kings were gathered. They came together. 6 They, after seeing it thus, marveled; they were troubled; they were shaken. 7 Trembling seized them there, labor pangs as when a woman gives birth. 8 By a violent wind you will crush the ships of Tarshish. 9 Just as we heard, thus we saw in the city of the Lord of the powers, in the city of our God. God founded it for eternity. Musical interlude 10 O God, we have thought upon your mercy in the middle of your people. 11 According to your name, O God, thus also is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness. 12 Let the mountain of Zion be cheerful! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice exceedingly because of your judgments, O Lord! 13 Go around, O Zion, and cover it. Tell in its towers. 14 Put your hearts to its power and observe its palaces carefully, that you may describe it to the next generation. 15 For this is our God, for eternity and for eternity of eternity.

48FOR THE END, A PSALM BY THE SONS OF KORAH. 2 Hear these things, all you nations! Give ear, all you who are dwelling upon the inhabited earth, 3 both those who are earthborn and the sons of humans, rich and poor together. 4 My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart understanding. 5 I will bend my ear to the proverb. With a harp I will open my problem. 6 Why do I fear in the bad day? The lawlessness at my heel will surround me, 7 the ones who trust in their power and boast in the great amount of their riches. 8 A brother is not redeemed. Will a person redeem? He will not give to God his ransom, 9 and the price of the ransoming of his life, and he labored for eternity. 10 But he will live in the end because he will not see destruction 11 when he sees the wise who have died. Together the senseless and the foolish one will perish and leave behind to strangers their wealth. 12 And their graves are their houses for eternity, their quarters for generation and generation. They called their lands by their own names. 13 And a person, although being with honor, does not understand. He is like the senseless livestock and is made like them. 14 This way of theirs is a trap to them, and after these things with their mouth they bless. Musical interlude 15 Like sheep they were placed in Hades. Death rules them, and the upright ones have dominion over them in the morning. Their help will be worn out from their glory in Hades. 16 But God will redeem my soul from the hand of Hades when he receives me. Musical interlude 17 Fear not when a person becomes wealthy and when the glory of his house increases. 18 For when he dies, he will not take all things, nor will his glory go down with him. 19 For his soul will be blessed in his life. He will give thanks to you when you do good to him. 20 He will enter unto the generation of his fathers. He will not see light until eternity. 21 A person, although being in honor, does not understand. He is like the senseless beasts and is made like them.

49God of gods, the Lord, spoke and summoned the earth from the east and until its setting. 2 From Zion is the goodly appearance of his comeliness. 3 God will come visibly, our God, and he will not keep silent. A fire will burn before him, and around him is a violent storm. 4 He will call the heavens above and the earth to judge his people. 5 Gather to Him his holy ones who established his covenant by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens will declare his righteousness, for God is judge. Musical interlude 7 “Hear, O people of mine, and I will speak to you, O Israel. I will warn against you. I am God, your God. 8 Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you. Your whole burnt offerings are always before me. 9 I will not accept young bulls from your house, nor male goats from your flocks, 10 for all the beasts of the wood are mine, the livestock in the mountains and cattle. 11 I have known all the birds of the heavens, and the beauty of the field is with me. 12 If I am hungry, never ever would I say so to you, for the inhabited world and the fullness of it are mine. 13 I will not eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats, will I? 14 Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise, and repay to the most high your vows. 15 Call upon me in the day of tribulation, and I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.” Musical interlude 16 But to the sinner God said, “Why do you set out in detail the righteous duties of mine, and take up my covenant in your mouth? 17 You hated instruction, and you threw out my words to the rear. 18 If you behold a thief, you run together with him. And you set your portion with adulterers. 19 Your mouth abounds in badness, and your tongue embraces deceit. 20 Seated, you speak against your brother, and you set a trap against the son of your mother. 21 These things you did, and I was silent. You wrongly thought that I would be like you. I will reprove you and be present against your face. 22 Understand indeed these things, you who forget God, lest he seize you, and there be no one who can rescue you. 23 A sacrifice of praise will glorify me, and there is a way by which I will show him the salvation of God.”

50FOR THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID, 2 WHEN NATHAN THE PROPHET CAME TO HIM WHEN HE HAD GONE INTO BATHSHEBA. 3 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your great mercy. According to the magnitude of your compassions blot out my iniquity. 4 Wash me thoroughly from my lawlessness, and cleanse me from my sin. 5 For I know my lawlessness, and my sin is always before me. 6 Against you alone did I sin, and I did the evil deed before you, so that you would be vindicated in your words and prevail when you judge. 7 For look, in evils I was conceived, and in sins my mother conceived me. 8 For look, you loved truth. You showed to me the unknown things and the secret things of your wisdom. 9 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. Wash me, and I will be made more white than snow. 10 Cause me to hear great joy and cheer. The bones, having been made low, will rejoice exceedingly. 11 Turn your face away from my sins, and blot out all my lawless acts. 12 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit in my inward parts. 13 Do not cast me from your face, and do not remove your Holy Spirit from me. 14 Restore to me the great joy of your salvation, and strengthen me with a guiding spirit. 15 I will teach the lawless ones your ways, and the ungodly ones will return to you. 16 Rescue me from bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will rejoice exceedingly in your righteousness. 17 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 18 For if you had wanted a sacrifice, I would have given a whole burnt offering. But you did not want it. 19 A sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and humbled heart God will not disdain. 20 Do good, O Lord, in your goodwill to Zion, and let the city walls of Jerusalem be restored. 21 Then you will be well pleased with righteous sacrifice, with offering and whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer up young bulls upon your altar.

51FOR THE END, A PSALM OF UNDERSTANDING BY DAVID, 2 WHEN DOEG THE EDOMITE CAME AND REPORTED TO SAUL AND SAID TO HIM, “DAVID HAS COME INTO THE HOUSE OF ABIMELECH.” 3 Why do you pride yourself in wickedness, O strong one, in lawlessness the whole day? 4 Your tongue plotted wrongdoing. Like a sharpened razor you carried out treachery. 5 You loved wickedness more than goodness, wrongdoing more than speaking righteousness. Musical interlude 6 You loved all words of destruction, O deceitful tongue. 7 On account of this, God will destroy you completely. May he pluck you out and remove you from a habitation, and your root from the land of the living ones. Musical interlude 8 The righteous ones will see and fear, and they will laugh at him and say, 9 “Look, the person who did not set God as his helper, but hoped in the magnitude of his riches, and was strengthened in his vanity.” 10 But I am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God. I hoped in the mercy of God for eternity and for eternity of eternity. 11 I will give thanks to you for eternity because of what you did, and I waited upon your name, for it is good before your holy ones.

52FOR THE END, IN THE NAME OF MAELETH, A PSALM OF UNDERSTANDING BY DAVID. 2 The foolish said in his heart, “There is no God.” They were corrupted and were abhorred in evil acts. There is no one who is doing good. 3 God looked out upon the sons of humans from the heavens to see if there is one who understands or one who seeks out God. 4 All turned away. Together they became useless. There is not one doing good. There is not even one. 5 Will not all the ones who work lawlessness know? Those who eat my people as the eating of bread did not call upon God. 6 There they feared a fear, where there was no fear, because God scattered abroad the bones of the people pleasers. They were put to shame because God scorned them. 7 Who will give the salvation of Israel from Zion? When the Lord turns back the captives of his people, Jacob will rejoice exceedingly, and Israel will be cheerful.

53FOR THE END, AMONG HYMNS OF UNDERSTANDING BY DAVID, 2 WHEN THE ZIPHITES CAME AND SAID TO SAUL, “LOOK! IS NOT DAVID HIDDEN WITH US?” 3 O God, in your name save me, and in your power vindicate me! 4 O God, hearken to my prayer. Give ear to the words of my mouth. 5 For foreigners rose up against me, and mighty ones sought my life. They did not set God before them. Musical interlude 6 For look, God helps me, and the Lord is the protector of my life. 7 He will return the evil things against my enemies. In your truthfulness utterly destroy them! 8 Willingly I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name because it is good. 9 For from every affliction you rescued me, and my eye looked upon my enemies.

54FOR THE END, AMONG HYMNS OF UNDERSTANDING BY DAVID. 2 Give ear, O God, to my prayer, and do not look over my entreaty. 3 Give heed to me, and give ear to me. I am grieved with my idle talk. I am troubled 4 from the voice of the enemy and from the affliction of the sinner, because they turned around lawlessness against me. In anger they were indignant at me. 5 My heart was troubled in me, and deathly cowardice fell upon me. 7 And I said, “Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly away and be at rest?” 8 Look, I traveled afar fleeing away, and I spent the night in the desert. Musical interlude 9 I was awaiting the one who saves me from loss of heart and storm. 10 Drown them, O Lord, and divide their tongues, because I saw lawlessness and controversy in the city. 11 Day and night he will surround it upon its city walls. There is lawlessness and affliction in the middle of it 12 and wrongdoing; work and treachery did not come to an end from its wide streets. 13 For if an enemy had reproached me, then I would have endured it. And if the one who hates would have boasted over me, I would have hidden from him. 14 But it is you, O fellow of equal spirit, leader of me and my friend, 15 who made food sweet together; in the house of God we walked in unity. 16 Let death come upon them, and let them go down into Hades alive, because wickedness is in their sojournings in the middle of them. 17 I cried aloud to God, and the Lord heard me. 18 Evening and morning and midday I will set out in detail. I will report, and he will give ear to my voice. 19 He will redeem my soul in peace from those who come near me, because in many ways they were with me. 20 God will hearken, and he will make them lowly, the one who exists before the eternities. Musical interlude For there is no ransom for them, and they do not fear God. 21 He stretched out his hand in retribution. They profaned His covenant. 22 They were divided from the anger of his face, and his heart came near. His words softened more than olive oil, and they are javelins. 23 Cast your care upon the Lord, and he will continually sustain you. He will not give a surging wave to the righteous one for eternity. 24 But you, O God, will lead them down into the pit of destruction. Men of bloodshed and deceit will never divide in half their days. But as for me, I will hope upon you, O Lord.

55FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE REMOVED FAR AWAY FROM THE SACRED THINGS; BY DAVID FOR INSCRIPTION, WHEN THE FOREIGNERS TOOK HOLD OF HIM IN GATH. 2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, because a person trampled me down the whole day. Making war, he afflicted me. 3 My enemies trampled me the whole day, from the arrogance of the day, for many are those who are fighting against me. 4 I shall be frightened, but I will hope upon you. 5 In God I will praise my words the whole day. In God I placed my hope. I will not fear. What will mere flesh do to me? 6 The whole day they were abhorring my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. 7 They will dwell beside and will hide my heel. They will keep watch just as I waited upon my soul. 8 For nothing you will save them. In wrath you will bring down peoples, O God. 9 My life I proclaimed to you. You set my tears before you, as even in your promise.[12] 10 My enemies will turn around backwards in whichever day I call upon you. Look, I knew that you are my God. 11 To God I will praise with a speech. To God I will praise with a word. 12 Upon God I placed my hope. I will not fear what a person will do to me. 13 In me, O God, are the vows that I will render of praise 14 because you rescued my soul from death, and my feet from slipping, that I would be well pleasing before God in the light of the living.

56FOR THE END, DO NOT UTTERLY DESTROY! BY DAVID FOR INSCRIPTION, WHEN HE ESCAPED FROM SAUL’S FACE INTO THE CAVE. 2 Have mercy on me, O God. Have mercy upon me, because in you my soul has trusted, and in the shadow of your wings I will hope until when evil passes by. 3 I will cry aloud to God most high, the God who does good for me. Musical interlude 4 He dispatched from the heavens and saved me. He gave for reproach those who trampled me down. God dispatched his mercy and his truth. 5 And he rescued my soul from the middle of lions. I fell asleep troubled. The sons of humans, their teeth are a weapon and arrows, and their tongue is a sharp sword. 6 Be lifted high over the heavens, O God, and may your glory be over all the earth. 7 They prepared a trap for my feet, and they bent down my soul. They dug a hole before my face, and they fell into it. Musical interlude 8 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready. I will sing and sing psalms. 9 Awake, O my glory! Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake at dawn. 10 I will give thanks to you among the peoples, O Lord. I will sing psalms to you among the nations, 11 because your mercy was magnified unto the heavens, and your truth unto the clouds. 12 Be lifted up over the heavens, O God, and your glory over all the earth.

57FOR THE END, DO NOT UTTERLY DESTROY! BY DAVID FOR INSCRIPTION. 2 If truly then you speak righteousness, judge upright things, O sons of humans. 3 For even in your heart you perform lawless acts in the land, your hands plot wrongdoing. 4 Sinners alienated from the womb, they are led astray from the womb. They speak falsehood. 5 Their rage is according to the likeness of the serpent, as a deaf adder also stopping up its ears, 6 which does not hear the voice of those singing chants, and the magician using enchantments with skill. 7 God broke their teeth in their mouth; the Lord crushed together the molars of the lions. 8 They will be set to naught as water going through. He will stretch his bow till they stumble. 9 As beeswax melting they will be removed; a fire has fallen, and they did not see the sun. 10 Before your brambles notice the thorn, he will devour you as alive, as in wrath. 11 The righteous will be cheerful when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. 12 And a person will say, “Surely then there is fruit for the righteous one. Therefore, God is judging them in the land.”

58FOR THE END, DO NOT UTTERLY DESTROY! BY DAVID FOR INSCRIPTION, WHEN SAUL SENT AND WATCHED HIS HOUSE TO KILL HIM. 2 Deliver me from my enemies, O God, and redeem me from those who rise up against me. 3 Rescue me from those who work lawlessness, and save me from men of bloodshed, 4 because look, they hunted my soul. Strong men lay hold upon me. Nor was it my lawlessness, nor was it my sin, O Lord. 5 Without my lawlessness they ran, and I went directly. Rise up to meet me and see. 6 And you, O Lord, the God of mighty powers, the God of Israel, pay attention to visit all the nations. Do not have pity upon all who are working lawlessness. Musical interlude 7 They will return in the evening, and they will be hungry as a dog, and they will encircle the city. 8 Look, they speak in their mouth, and a sword is in their lips, for they think, “Who has heard?” 9 And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will scorn all the nations. 10 My strength I will keep with you, because you, O God, are my helper. 11 My God, his mercy will come near to me. My God will show to me victory among my enemies. 12 Do not kill them, lest they forget your law. Scatter them in your power and bring them down, O Lord, my protector. 13 Because of the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips, let them be captured in their arrogance. Then by their cursing and lying they will be announced, 14 as destruction, in the wrath of destruction; and they shall not be. They will know that the God of Jacob is Lord over the ends of the earth. Musical interlude 15 They will return in the evening, and they will be hungry as a dog, and they will encircle the city. 16 They will be scattered abroad to eat, but if they are satisfied, also they will murmur. 17 But I will sing to your power, and I will rejoice greatly in the morning by your mercy; for you were my helper and a place of refuge in the day of affliction. 18 My helper, to you I will sing psalms, O my God, because, O my helper, you are my God, my mercy.

59FOR THE END; FOR THOSE WHO ARE STILL BEING CHANGED, FOR INSCRIPTION BY DAVID FOR TEACHING, 2 WHEN HE SET ON FIRE ARAM-NAHARAIM OF SYRIA AND ARAM-ZOBAHN OF ZOBAH, AND JOAB RETURNED AND STRUCK TWELVE THOUSAND IN THE RAVINE OF SALT. 3 O God, you rejected us and destroyed us; You were angered, and yet you had pity on us. 4 You trembled the earth and confounded it. Heal the wounds of it, because they are afflicted. 5 You showed difficulties to your people. You gave us to drink wine of bewilderment. 6 You gave a sign to those who are fearing you to flee from the face of the bow. Musical interlude 7 So that your beloved would be rescued, save by your right hand and hear me. 8 God spoke in his holy place, “I will rejoice exceedingly and divide Shechem, and I will measure the valley of tents. 9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king. 10 Moab is the cauldron of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe. Foreigners were placed under me.” 11 Who will lead me into a city of siege? Who will guide me unto Edom? 12 Are you not the God who rejected us? And will you not come out, O God, with our forces? 13 Give us help from affliction and the vain salvation of humanity. 14 But with God we will do mightily, and he will set to naught those who afflict us.

60FOR THE END, WITH HYMNS, BY DAVID. 2 Hear my entreaty. Pay attention to my prayer. 3 From the ends of the earth I cried aloud to you, when my heart was in anguish. You lifted me upon a rock. You guided me, 4 because you were my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy. 5 I will dwell in your tent for eternity. Musical interlude I will be covered in the protection of your wings. 6 For you, O God, heard my prayer. You gave an inheritance to those who fear your name. 7 You will add days upon days to the king. until days of generations and generations. 8 He will remain for eternity before God. His mercy and truth, who will seek them out? 9 Thus I will sing psalms to your name for eternity of eternity, so that I can render my vows day by day.

61FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF JEDUTHUN, A PSALM BY DAVID. 2 Will not my soul be obedient to God? For my deliverance is from him. 3 For indeed, he is my God and my savior, my helper. Never ever will I be shaken too greatly. 4 How long will you assail against a person? You murder, all of you, like a bent wall and a pushed fence. 5 However, they deliberated to reject my honor. They ran with thirst; with their mouth they bless, but with their heart they called down curses. Musical interlude 6 However, obey God, O my soul, for from him is my hope. 7 For he is my God and my savior, my helper. Never ever will I flee. 8 In God is my deliverance. And my glory is the God of my help. And my hope is in God. 9 Place your hope in him, all you gathering of the people. Pour out before him your hearts. God is our helper. Musical interlude 10 However, vain are the sons of humans. False in scales are the sons of humans to do wrong. They are vainly the same. 11 Do not hope in wrongdoing and in booty. Do not yearn after wealth; if it overflows, do not hand over the heart. 12 Once God spoke; I heard these two things: that strength is God’s, 13 and in you, O Lord, is mercy, because you will repay to each one according to his works.

62aA PSALM, BY DAVID WHEN HE WAS IN THE DESERT OF EDOM. 2 O God, my God, to you I rise early. My soul thirsts for you. How often my flesh longs for you in a desolate and inaccessible and waterless land. 3 Thus I appeared to you in the holy place, to see your power and your glory. 4 For better is your mercy than life. My lips will praise you. 5 Thus I will bless you with my life. In your name I will raise up my hands. 6 As with tallow and fattiness let my soul be fully satisfied, and lips of rejoicing will praise your name. 7 If I was remembering you in my bed, in the dawn I was meditating on you. 8 For you were my helper, and in the shelter of your wings I will rejoice greatly. 9 My soul clung after you. Your right hand helped me. 10 But they sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lowest parts of the earth. 11 They will be handed over into the hands of the sword. Portions for a fox they will be. 12 But the king will be cheerful in God. Everyone who swears in him will be praised, because the mouths of those speaking unjust things were stopped.

63FOR THE END, A PSALM BY DAVID. 2 Hear my prayer, O God, when I pray to you. From the fear of the enemy deliver my soul, 4 who sharpened as a sword their tongues; they stretched their bow as a cruel deed, 5 to strike down the blameless with arrows in hidden places. Suddenly they will strike him, and they will not fear. 6 They strengthened themselves with an evil word. They set out in detail to hide snares. They said, “Who will see them?” 7 They searched out lawlessness. They came to an end, searching with an inquiry. A person will come, and the heart is deep. 8 And God will be raised up. Their blows became an arrow of infants, 9 and their tongues disdained him. All those who were beholding them were troubled. 10 And every person feared, and they reported the works of God, and they understood his deeds. 11 The righteous one will be cheerful in the Lord, and he will hope in him. And all the upright in heart will be praised.

64FOR THE END, A PSALM BY DAVID, A SONG. 2 For you, O God, a hymn is fitting in Zion, and to you a vow will be repaid. 3 Give ear to my prayer! To you all flesh will be present. 4 Words of lawless ones prevailed over us, and you will pardon our impieties. 5 Blessed is the one whom you choose and took. He will dwell in your courts. We will be full with the good things of your house. Your temple is holy. 6 You are wonderful in righteousness. Hear us, O God, our savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth, 7 who prepares the mountains in your strength, having been girded in sovereignty, 8 the one who troubles the water of the sea, the sounds of its waves; the nations will be troubled! 9 And those who are inhabiting the ends will fear from your signs. You will delight the going out of the morning and evening. 10 You visited the earth and filled it. You multiplied to enrich it. The river of God was filled with waters. You prepared their food, because thus was your preparation. 11 Satisfy its furrows. Increase its products. That which grows up will be delighted in its drippings. 12 You will bless the crown of the year with your kindness, and your fields will be full of fattiness. 13 The mountains of the desert will be increased, and the hills will be girded with great joy. 14 The rams of the sheep were clothed, and the hollows multiplied with corn. They have cried aloud. Indeed, they will sing.

65Shout aloud to God, all the earth! 2 Sing psalms indeed to his name. Give glory with praise of him. 3 Say to God, “How awesome are your works! In the magnitude of your power, your enemies feigned loyalty to you. 4 Let all the earth bow down to you, and let them sing psalms to you! Let them sing psalms to your name.” Musical interlude 5 Come children, and see the works of God; he is awesome in his plans on behalf of the sons of humans, 6 who turns the sea to dry ground. In the river they will go through on foot. There we will be cheerful in him, 7 who is Lord in his sovereignty of eternity. His eyes look down upon the nations. Let the ones embittered not be lifted high in themselves. Musical interlude 8 Bless our God, O nations, and make heard the voice of his praise, 9 who places my soul into life and who did not give my feet into the surging wave. 10 For you tested us, O God, and you purged us as silver is purged. 11 You led us into the trap; you set afflictions before us. 12 You put people upon our heads. We went through fire and water, and you led us into refreshment. 13 I will enter into your house with whole burnt offerings; I will give to you my vows, 14 which my lips set aside and my mouth spoke in my affliction. 15 Whole burnt offerings full of marrow I will offer up to you. With burnt sacrifice and rams I will offer to you bulls with male goats. Musical interlude 16 Come, hear, and I will describe, all you who fear the Lord, how much he did for my soul. 17 To him I cried aloud with my mouth, and I lifted up high under my tongue. 18 If I were to behold wrongdoing in my heart, may the Lord not heed it. 19 On account of this, God heard me. He paid heed to the voice of my prayer. 20 Blessed is God, who does not send away my prayer and his mercy from me. Let the Nations Rejoice

66FOR THE END, AMONG HYMNS, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 O God, have pity on us, and bless us to shine his face upon us, Musical interlude 3 to know in the earth your way and in all the nations your salvation. 4 Let the peoples give thanks, O God; let all the peoples give thanks. 5 Let the nations be cheerful, and let them rejoice exceedingly, because you will judge the peoples in uprightness, and you will lead the nations in the earth. Musical interlude 6 Let the peoples give thanks to you, O God; let all the peoples give thanks to you. 7 The earth gave of its fruit. Bless us, O God, our God. 8 Bless us, O God, and let all the ends of the earth fear him.

67FOR THE END, BY DAVID, A PSALM OF A SONG. 2 Let God rise up, and let his enemies be scattered, and let those who hate him flee away from his face. 3 As smoke comes to an end, let them come to an end; as beeswax melts from the face of fire, thus may sinners be destroyed from the face of God. 4 And let the righteous ones be cheerful. Let them rejoice exceedingly before God. Let them delight in cheer. 5 Sing to God. Sing psalms to his name. Make a road for the one who has tread upon the west; the Lord is his name. And rejoice exceedingly before him. 6 They will be stirred up by his face, who is the father of the fatherless and the judge of the widows; God is in his holy place. 7 God causes the solitary to dwell in a house, leading those having been bound fast in strength, likewise those who provoke, those who are dwelling in graves. 8 O God, when you went before your people, when you passed over the desert, 9 the earth shook, and indeed the heavens trickled, from the face of the God of Sinai, from the face of the God of Israel. 10 Rain you will willingly grant, O God, for your inheritance, and it was weak, but you restored it. 11 Your living beings will dwell in it. You prepared it in your goodness for the poor. 12 The Lord God will give a word to those who bring good news with great power, 13 “The king of the forces of the beloved one, even the beloved, and in the beauty of the house divides the spoils. 14 If you sleep between the portions, there will be the wings of the dove plated with silver and the back parts of it in pale yellow of gold.” 15 When the heavenly one separates kings upon it, they will be covered with snow in Zalmon. 16 The mountain of God is a fat mountain. The mountain, having been formed, is a fat mountain. 17 Why do you think conceitedly, O formed mountain, the mountain that God was well pleased to live in it? Indeed, the Lord will dwell completely. 18 The chariots of God are ten thousand-fold, thousands of those flourishing. The Lord is among them in Sinai, in the holy place. 19 Having gone up to the high place, you took as prisoners a body of captives. You received gifts in a person, yes indeed, those resisting, to cause them to dwell there. 20 The Lord God is blessed. Blessed is the Lord day by day. And the God of our deliverances will prosper us. 21 Our God is a God who saves, and the issues of death belong to the Lord. 22 However, God will crush the heads of his enemies, the crown of hair of those who walk in his trespasses. 23 The Lord said, “From Bashan I will return; I will return in the deep of the sea, 24 so that your foot would be dipped in blood, the tongue of your dogs stained from your enemies from it.” 25 Your ways were beheld, O God, the ways of my God, the king who is in his holy place. 26 The rulers came near, next to singers of psalms in the middle of maiden drummers. 27 In the assemblies bless God, the Lord from the fountains of Israel. 28 There is Benjamin, the youngest, in entrancement, the rulers of Judah leading them, the rulers of Zebulun, the rulers of Naphtali. 29 Command, O God, with your power. Strengthen, O God, this that you prepared for us. 30 From your temple in Jerusalem kings will bring gifts to you. 31 Rebuke the beasts of the reed, the congregation of the bulls in the heifers of the peoples, that those who have been scrutinized with silver would not be shut off. Scatter the nations who want wars. 32 Elders will be present from Egypt; Ethiopia will draw near her hand to God. 33 Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God! Sing psalms to the Lord! 34 Sing psalms to God, who has tread upon the heaven of the heavens to the east. Look, he will give in his voice a voice of power. 35 Give glory to God! In Israel is the majesty of him, and the power of him is in the clouds. 36 Marvelous is God in his holy place. The God of Israel himself will give power and strength to his people. And blessed is God!

68FOR THE END, ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ARE BEING CHANGED, BY DAVID. 2 Save me, O God, because waters entered unto my soul. 3 I was planted in the mud of the deep, and there was no substance. I came into the depth of the sea, and the storm drowned me. 4 I grew weary of crying aloud; my throat was sore. My eyes were brought to an end by coming near to my God. 5 Those who hate me for nothing increased more than the hairs of my head; my enemies, those who persecute me unjustly, were strengthened. What things I did not seize, then I repaid. 6 O God, you knew my folly and my trespasses; they are not hidden from you. 7 May those who wait upon you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord of forces. May those who seek you not be shamed because of me, O God of Israel, 8 because on account of you I bore reproach; shame covered my face. 9 I became a stranger to my brothers, and a foreigner to the children of my mother, 10 because the zeal of your house has devoured me, and the reproach of those who revile you fell upon me. 11 And I was bent in a fast with respect to my soul, and it became as a reproach to me. 12 And I put on my garment as sackcloth, and I have become to them a byword. 13 Those who are seated in the gate were chattering against me, and those who drink wine were singing psalms against me. 14 But I, in my prayer to you, O Lord, may it be an occasion of good will. O God, in the magnitude of your mercy hear in the truthfulness of your salvation. 15 Save me from the mud, that I would not be planted in it. May I be rescued from those who hate me and from the depth of the waters. 16 Do not let a storm of water drown me, nor let the deep devour me, nor let the pit surround its mouth upon me. 17 Give ear to me, O Lord, because your mercy is good. According to the magnitude of your compassions look down upon me. 18 Because I am afflicted, quickly hear me. 19 Pay attention to my soul and redeem it. On account of my enemies rescue me. 20 For you know my reproach and my shame and my humiliation. Before you are all those who are afflicting me. 21 My soul expected reproach and misery. And I waited upon the one hurting with me, and he did not exist, and for one to comfort me, but I found none. 22 And they gave gall for my food, and they gave me vinegar for my drink. 23 Let their table become before them a trap and a repayment and a stumbling block. 24 Let their eyes be darkened that they would not see. Through everything bend their back.[13] 25 Pour out your wrath upon them, and may the rage of your wrath seize upon them. 26 Let their dwelling become stripped bare, and let there be no one dwelling in their tents, 27 because they persecuted the one whom you struck down, and they added to the pain of my wound. 28 Add lawlessness to their lawlessness, and let them not enter in your righteousness. 29 Let them be blotted out from the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous ones. 30 I am poor and suffering, and the salvation of your face supported me. 31 I will praise the name of God! With song I will magnify him in praise. 32 And this will satisfy God more than a young bull bearing horns and hoofs. 33 Let the poor see and be cheerful. Seek out God, and you shall live, 34 because the Lord gave ear to the poor ones, and his own ones, having been bound fast, he did not scorn. 35 Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the sea and all the creeping things in them. 36 For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be restored. And they will inhabit there, and they will inherit it. 37 And the seed of his servants will possess it. And the ones loving his name will dwell in it.

69FOR THE END, BY DAVID, FOR REMEMBERING THAT THE LORD WOULD SAVE ME. 2 O God, pay attention to my help! 3 May those who seek my soul be put to shame, and may they be turned about. May those who wish evil things for me be turned backwards, and may they be disgraced. 4 May those who are dishonoring be turned back immediately, who are saying to me, “Good, good!” 5 Let all who seek you rejoice exceedingly, and let them be cheerful in you. And let the ones who love your salvation say always, “Let God be magnified!” 6 But I am needy and poor; O God, help me! You are my helper and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay!

70O God, in you I placed my hope; may I not be disgraced for eternity. 2 In your righteousness rescue me and deliver me. Bend your ear to me and save me. 3 Become to me a protector God, a strong place to save me, because you are my strength and my refuge. 4 O God, rescue me from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the one transgressing the law and doing wrong, 5 because you are my hope, O Lord; the Lord is my hope from my youth. 6 In you I was strengthened from the womb; from the belly of my mother you are my protector. In you is my praising through everything. 7 Just like wonders I became to many people, and you are a strong helper. 8 Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I will sing of your glory, your majesty, the whole day. 9 Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength comes to an end, do not forsake me. 10 For my enemies spoke against me, and the ones who guarded my soul deliberated in the same way, 11 saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and seize upon him, because there is no one who rescues.” 12 O God, do not be far removed from me. 13 Let those who accuse my soul falsely be dishonored, and let them come to an end. Let those who seek evil things for me be clothed in disgrace and shame. 14 But I will hope through everything and will add to all your praise. 15 My mouth will proclaim your righteousness the whole day; your salvation, because I knew not diligent studies. 16 I will enter in the power of the Lord, O Lord. I will remember your righteousness alone. 17 You taught me, O God, from my youth, and until now I will announce your wondrous things. 18 Also unto old age and while elderly, O God, do not forsake me, as long as ever I will announce your strength, your power to every coming generation, 19 and your righteousness, O God, unto the highest. What magnificent things you did! O God, who is like you? 20 For you showed to me great and evil afflictions, but you returned, you made me alive, and from the depths of the earth again you raised me up. 21 You multiplied your righteousness, and you returned. You comforted me, and from the depths again you raised me up. 22 Indeed, I will give thanks to you with the instrument of a psalm for your truth. I will sing psalms to you, O God, with the lyre, O holy one of Israel. 23 My lips will rejoice exceedingly whenever I sing psalms to you, and my soul, which you redeemed. 24 Furthermore, my tongue will meditate on your righteousness the whole day, whenever those who seek evil things for me are dishonored and turned about.

71O God, give your justice to the king, and your righteousness to the son of the king, 2 to judge your people in righteousness and your poor in justice. 3 Let the mountains take up peace for your people, and let the hills be. 4 In righteousness he will judge the poor of the people, and he will save the children of the poor, and he will humble the false accuser. 5 And he will continue with the sun and before the moon for generations and generations. 6 And he will come down as rain upon wool and just like drops trickling upon the earth. 7 Righteousness will grow up in his days, and a multitude of peace, until when the moon will be removed. 8 And he will rule from sea unto sea and from river unto the ends of the inhabited earth. 9 Before him Ethiopians will bow down, and his enemies will lick up the dust. 10 Kings of Tarshish and the islands will bring gifts; kings of Arabs and of Sheba will furnish gifts. 11 And all the kings will bow down to him; all the nations will serve him. 12 Because he rescued the needy one from the hand of the master, and the poor one for whom there was no helper. 13 He will spare the needy one and the poor one, and the souls of the poor he will save. 14 From financial oppression and injustice he will redeem their souls, and their name will be honored before him. 15 And he will live long, and there will be given to him from the gold of Arabia. And they will pray concerning him always; the whole day they will bless him. 16 He will be a support in the land upon the tops of the mountains. His fruit will surpass beyond Lebanon, and they will bloom from the city just as the grass of the earth. 17 Let his name be blessed into the eternities. Before the sun his name will remain, and all the tribes of the land will be blessed in him; all the nations will bless him. 18 Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who does wondrous things alone. 19 And blessed is the name of his glory into eternity and into the eternity of eternity. All the earth will be full of his glory. May it be! May it be! 20 The hymns of David, the son of Jesse, have come to an end.

72How good is God to Israel, to the upright ones in heart. 2 But my feet were shaken more than a little. More than a little my steps were poured out. 3 For I was envious over the lawless ones, while beholding the peace of sinners, 4 because there is no refusal in their death, and there is strength in their whip. 5 They are not in the troubles of humans. And they will not be flogged with humans. 6 On account of this, arrogance took hold of them. They were clothed with wrongdoing and their ungodliness. 7 Their injustice will flow out as from fat. They went through to the disposition of their heart. 8 They intended and spoke in wickedness. They spoke wrongdoing in arrogance. 9 They placed their mouth in the heavens. And their tongue went through to the earth. 10 On account of this, my people will return here, and full days will be found for them. 11 And they said, “How did God know?” And they asked whether there is knowledge in the Most High. 12 Look, sinners, and they are flourishing. For eternity they possessed riches. 13 And I said, “Therefore, in vain I set to right my heart, and washed in innocence my hands. 14 And I was flogged the whole day, and my rebuke was in the mornings.” 15 If I were to say, “I will describe thus,” then look, I would have broken covenant with the generation of your children. 16 And I took up to know this, a trouble before me, 17 until I would enter into the sanctuary of God, and I would understand the final affairs. 18 However, on account of their treacheries, you determined to them. 19 How they came to desolation! Suddenly they came to an end! They were destroyed on account of their lawlessness. 20 Just like a dream of one awakening, O Lord, in your city you will set to naught their image. 21 For my heart was cheered, and my mind was changed. 22 And I, being scorned, also did not know; I was like a beast before you. 23 And I was through all with you. You seized my right hand. 24 In your counsel you led me, and with glory you took me along. 25 For what exists for me in the heavens besides you? What did I want upon the earth? 26 My heart and my flesh came to an end. You are the God of my heart and my portion, O God, for eternity. 27 For look, those who remove themselves from you will perish. You destroyed every one acting unfaithfully from you. 28 But for me, to be fastened to the Lord is good, to place in the Lord my hope, to make known all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

73O God, why will you reject completely? Your wrath was angered upon the sheep of your pasture. 2 Remember your congregation, which you created from the beginning. You redeemed the rod of your inheritance, this Mount Zion, which you dwelt in it. 3 Lift up your hands upon their arrogance completely, as much as the enemy among your holy ones acted wickedly. 4 And those who hate you prided themselves in the middle of your feast. 5 As into the entrance above, as in the thicket of wood with axes, they cut 6 the doors of it; in the same way, with axe and stonecutter’s tool, they dashed it down. 7 They ignited with fire your sanctuary; to the earth they profaned the tent of your name. 8 They said in their heart, their kindred altogether, “Come and cease the feasts of the Lord from the land!” 9 We do not see our signs; there is no longer a prophet, and he will know us no longer. 10 How long, O God, will the enemy revile, will the one opposing your name anger completely? 11 Why do you turn back your hand, and your right hand from the middle of your chest completely? 12 But he is our King from before for eternity. You made salvation in the middle of the earth. 13 You strengthened the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the serpents in the water. 14 You gave it as food to the Ethiopian peoples. 15 You broke through springs and torrents. 16 Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You created the sun and moon. 17 You made all the boundaries of the earth. You made summer and spring. 18 Remember this of your creation. An enemy reproached the Lord, and a foolish people provoked his name. 19 Do not deliver to the beasts a soul confessing you; do not forget the souls of your poor completely. 20 Look into your covenant, because the darkened places in the land were filled with lawless houses. 21 Let not the lowered and disgraced one be turned away; the needy and the poor will praise your name. 22 Stand up, O God, judge your cause. Remember the reproach of you by the foolish the whole day. 23 Do not forget the voice of your supplicants. The arrogance of those hating you, let it ascend to you continually.

74FOR THE END, DO NOT UTTERLY DESTROY! A PSALM BY ASAPH, A SONG. 2 We will give thanks to you, O God. We will give thanks and invoke your name. I will describe all your wondrous things 3 when I take time. I will judge with uprightness. 4 The earth and all the ones who are inhabiting it melted. I made strong the pillars of it. Musical interlude 5 I said to those transgressing the law, “Do not transgress the law,” and to those sinning, “Do not raise up a horn! 6 Do not lift into the heights your horn! Do not speak wrongdoing against God.” 7 For it comes neither from going out, nor from the west, nor from the deserted places. 8 For God is judge to make this one low and to elevate that one, 9 because there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmixed wine poured out, and he tipped it this way and that way; however, the dregs of it were not emptied out, and all the sinners of the earth will drink it. 10 But I will rejoice exceedingly for eternity. I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob. 11 And all the horns of the sinners I will shatter, and the horns of the righteous one will be raised up.

75FOR THE END, AMONG HYMNS; A PSALM BY ASAPH, A SONG TO THE ASSYRIAN. 2 God is known in Judah. In Israel his name is great. 3 And his place was in peace, and his abode was in Zion. 4 There he crushed the mighty things of the bow, weapon and sword and battle. There he shall break the horn. Musical interlude 5 You shine wonderfully from eternal mountains. 6 All the senseless in heart were troubled; they slept their slumber. And all men of riches found nothing with their hands. 7 From your censure, O God of Jacob, the ones who tread upon the horses slumbered. 8 You are awesome, and who will resist you, from your anger. 9 From the heavens you heard justice. The earth feared and kept quiet 10 when God arose for justice, to save all the meek in heart. Musical interlude 11 For the inward thought of a person will give thanks to you, and a remnant of inward thought will celebrate you. 12 Pray and repay to the Lord, our God. All who are around him will bring gifts 13 to the awesome one and to the one who takes away the spirits of the rulers, to the awesome one beyond the kings of the earth.

76FOR THE END, FOR JEDUTHUN, A PSALM BY ASAPH. 2 With my voice I cried aloud to the Lord. Indeed, my voice went up to God, and he paid attention to me. 3 In the day of my affliction I sought out God with my hands, by night before him, and I was not distracted. My soul refused to be consoled. 4 I remembered God, and I was cheerful. I chattered, and my spirit fainted. Musical interlude 5 My enemy occupied the night watches; I was troubled, and I did not speak. 6 I considered ancient days and eternal years. 7 I was reminded, and I meditated at night with my heart. I chattered, and my spirit searched. 8 The Lord will not reject for eternity, will he? And he will yet continue to be well pleased, will he not? 9 Or will he cut off mercy to an end from generation and generation? 10 Or will God forget to have pity? Or will he shut up his compassions with his anger? Musical interlude 11 And I said, “Now I am beginning to see that this is the change of the right hand of the Most High.” 12 I remembered the works of the Lord, because I will remember your wondrous things from the beginning. 13 And I will chatter on all your works, and on your habits I will chatter. 14 O God, in the holy place is your way. What god is great like our God is? 15 You are our God who does wondrous things. You made known your power among your peoples. 16 You delivered your people with your strong arm, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Musical interlude 17 Waters saw you, O God. Waters saw you, and they feared, and the deep waters were troubled. 18 There was an abundant echo of water. The clouds gave a voice; indeed, your arrows go through. 19 The voice of your thunder was in the circle. It was afflicted, and the earth was trembling. 20 In the sea is your way, and your paths are in great waters, but your tracks will not be known. 21 You led your people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

77Pay attention to my law, my people. Bend your ear to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in parables. I will voice riddles from the beginning.[14] 3 How much we heard and knew. Also our fathers described them to us. 4 They were not hidden from their children for the next generation, reporting the praises of the Lord and his powerful acts and his wondrous things, which he did. 5 And he established a testimony in Jacob and a law. He put in place in Israel that which he commanded our fathers, to make him known to their children. 6 That other generations would know, children who will be born, and they will rise up and announce them to their children, 7 that they should place their hope upon God, and they should not forget the work of God and seek out his commandments; 8 that they would not become like their fathers, a crooked generation and a provoking generation, which was not guiding its heart and was not establishing its spirit with God. 9 Children of Ephraim, though stretching and shooting with bow, they turned in the day of war. 10 They did not keep the covenant of God, and they did not want to go in his law. 11 And they forgot his benefits, and his wondrous things that he showed to them, 12 before their fathers, which wondrous things he did in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He broke through the sea and carried them. He established the waters as a bag. 14 And he led them in a cloud for days, and the whole night by the light of fire. 15 He broke through a rock in the desert and gave drink to them as in a great deep. 16 And he led out water from a rock and brought down waters as rivers. 17 And they still continued to sin against him. They provoked the Most High in the dry land. 18 And they tempted God in their hearts to ask food for their lives. 19 And they spoke against God and said, “God is not able to prepare a table in the desert, is he? 20 Even though he struck a rock, and waters overflowed and torrents flooded, will he not also be able to give bread or to prepare a table for his people?” 21 On account of this, the Lord heard and was infuriated, and a fire was kindled in Jacob, and anger went up against Israel, 22 because they did not trust in God, nor did they hope in his salvation. 23 And he commanded the clouds from above, and he opened the doors of the heavens. 24 And he rained for them manna to eat, and he gave bread of the heavens for them. 25 A person ate bread of angels. He sent provision for them in excess.[15] 26 And he lifted up the south wind from the heavens, and he brought the southwest wind in his power. 27 And he rained meat upon them as the dust and winged birds as sand of the seas. 28 And they fell down in the middle of their camp in a circle around their tents. 29 And they ate and were very satisfied, and he bore their desire for them. 30 They were not deprived from their desire. While their food was still in their mouth, 31 the anger of God went up against them, and he killed among their many, and he bound the feet of the chosen ones of Israel. 32 In all these things they still sinned, and they did not trust in his wondrous things. 33 And their days came to an end in pointlessness, and their years with haste. 34 Whenever he killed them, they sought him and returned and sought eagerly for their God; 35 and they remembered that God was their helper, and God Most High was their redeemer. 36 And they loved him with their mouth, and with their tongue they lied to him. 37 But their heart was not upright with him, nor were they established in his covenant. 38 But he is merciful, and he will pardon their sins, and he will not destroy them but will increase them, so that he turns back his wrath; and he will not kindle all his anger. 39 And he remembered that they are flesh, a wind going and not returning. 40 How often did they provoke him in the desert, did they provoke him in the dry land? 41 And they turned again and tested God, and they irritated the holy one of Israel. 42 They did not remember his hand, the day that he delivered them from the hand of the afflicter, 43 how he set in Egypt his signs and his wonders in the field of Zoan. 44 And he turned to blood their rivers and their rainwaters that they could not drink. 45 He sent forth to them flies, and they devoured them, and frogs, and they destroyed them. 46 And he gave their fruit to the red blight, and their toils to the locust. 47 He killed their vine with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost. 48 And he delivered their livestock into the hail, and their existence to fire. 49 He sent forth to them the anger of his wrath, wrath and anger and affliction sent through evil angels. 50 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare their souls from death, and he confined their livestock to death. 51 And he struck every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their toil in the tent of Ham. 52 And he took his people as sheep, and he brought them as a flock in the desert. 53 And he led them in hope, and they were not afraid, and the sea covered their enemies. 54 And he led them to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain that his right hand created. 55 And he threw out nations from the face of them, and settled them in a portion of distributed land, and he caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 And they tested and provoked God Most High, and they did not keep his testimonies. 57 And he returned, and they were faithless, as also their fathers were; and they changed into a crooked arrow. 58 And they provoked him upon their high places, and with their carved idols they provoked him to jealousy. 59 God heard and despised, and he scorned Israel very much. 60 And he rejected the tent of Shiloh, his tent in which he dwelt among humans. 61 And he delivered to captivity their strength, and his beauty to the hands of the enemy. 62 And he consigned his people to the sword, and he despised his inheritance. 63 Fire devoured their youth, and their virgins were not mourned. 64 Their priests fell with the sword, and their widows will not be lamented. 65 And the Lord was awakened as the sleeper, as a strong man having become drunk from wine. 66 And he struck their enemies in their backsides; he gave to them eternal reproach. 67 And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim he did not choose. 68 And he chose the tribe of Judah; he loved the mountain Zion. 69 And he built as unicorns his sanctuary; in the land he founded it for eternity. 70 And he chose David, his servant, and took him from the flocks of sheep. 71 From behind those who give birth, he took him to rule his servant Jacob and his inheritance Israel. 72 And he ruled them in the guilelessness of his heart, and in the understanding of his hands he led them.

78O God, nations came into your inheritance. They defiled your holy temple. They made Jerusalem as a hut of a garden watcher. 2 They made the dead bodies of your servants food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your holy ones for the beasts of the earth! 3 They poured out their blood as water in a circle of Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. 4 We became as a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a joke to those around us. 5 How long, O Lord, will you be angry to the end? Your zeal will be inflamed as a fire. 6 Pour out your anger against nations that do not look upon you, and against kingdoms that do not invoke your name, 7 because they devoured Jacob and laid waste his place. 8 Do not remember our ancient acts of lawlessness. Let your compassions quickly overtake us, because we became very poor. 9 Help us, O God, our savior, on account of the glory of your name. O Lord, rescue us, and pardon our sins, on account of your name. 10 Lest they say among the nations, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations before our eyes, the vengeance of the blood of your servants that was poured out. 11 Let the groaning of those having been bound come before you, according to the majesty of your arm, to preserve the children of those having been put to death. 12 Repay our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord. 13 For we are your people and the sheep of your pasture. We will give thanks to you for eternity; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.

79FOR THE END, FOR WHAT WILL BE ALTERED, A TESTIMONY BY ASAPH, A PSALM CONCERNING ASSYRIA. 2 O you who shepherd Israel, pay attention; O you who leads Joseph like sheep, the one seated upon cherubim, manifest yourself! 3 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh raise up your power and come to save us. 4 O God, restore us, and show forth your face, and we will be saved! 5 O Lord, the God of mighty powers, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your servant? 6 How long will you feed us bread of tears, and how long will you give us tears in measure to drink? 7 You placed us as a controversy for our neighbors, and our enemies mock us. 8 O Lord, the God of mighty powers, restore us, and show forth your face, and we will be saved. Musical interlude 9 You lifted up a vine from Egypt. You threw out nations and planted it. 10 You made a road before it and planted its roots, and the land was filled. 11 Its shadow covered mountains, and its tree-climbing vines the cedars of God. 12 Its branches stretched until the sea, and its offshoots until the river. 13 Why did you destroy its fence, and all who travel along the road pluck fruit from it? 14 A boar from the wood mistreated it, and a wild donkey devoured it. 15 O God of mighty powers, return now, look down from the heavens and see, and visit this vine, 16 and restore that which your right hand planted, and for the son of humanity whom you strengthened for yourself. 17 That which is set ablaze with fire and dug up, they will perish from the criticism of your face. 18 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand and upon the son of humanity whom you strengthened for yourself. 19 And may we never be removed from you. You will make us alive, and we will call upon your name. 20 O Lord, the God of mighty powers, restore us, and show forth your face, and we will be saved.

80FOR THE END, CONCERNING THE WINEPRESS, A PSALM BY ASAPH. 2 Rejoice exceedingly in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. 3 Take up a psalm and offer a tambourine, a pleasant harp with the lyre. 4 Sound the trumpet with the new moon, trumpet in the clear day of our feast, 5 because this is an ordinance for Israel and justice for the God of Jacob. 6 He set it as a testimony in Joseph when he came out from the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know. 7 He removed his back from the burdens; his hands served with the basket. 8 In affliction you invoked me, and I rescued you. I heard you in the hidden place of the storm. I scrutinized you upon the water of controversy. Musical interlude 9 “Hear, O my people, and I will speak to you, and I will warn you, O Israel, if you hear me. 10 There will be no novel god in you, nor will you bow down to a foreign god. 11 For I am the Lord, your God, the one who raised you up from the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it. 12 And my people did not hear my voice, and Israel did not pay attention to me. 13 And I sent them away according to the practices of their hearts; they will go in their practices. 14 If the people had heard me, if Israel had gone in my ways, 15 I would have brought their enemies low in no time, and I would have cast my hand upon those who afflict them.” 16 The enemies of the Lord lied against him, and their time will be for eternity. 17 And he fed them from the fat of wheat, and from a rock of honey he satisfied them.

81God stood in the assembly of the gods, and in the middle he judges the gods.[16] 2 How long will you judge unjustly and take the faces of sinners? Musical interlude 3 Consider the orphaned and the needy; vindicate the low and the poor. 4 Deliver the poor and the needy; rescue them from the hand of the sinner. 5 They did not know, nor did they understand. In darkness they passed through. All the foundations of the earth will be shaken. 6 I said, “You are gods, and all are children of the Most High.” 7 But now you die as humans, and as one of the rulers you fall. 8 Stand up, O God, judge the earth, because you will inherit among all the nations.

82aA SONG OF A PSALM BY ASAPH. 2 O God, who will be likened to you? Do not be silent, nor be calm, O God, 3 because look, your enemies roared, and the ones who hate you lifted up their head. 4 Against your people they villainously devised a purpose, and they deliberated against your holy ones. 5 They said, “Come, and let us utterly destroy them from the nations, and never ever will the name of Israel be remembered.” 6 For they deliberated in unity together. Against you they established a covenant. 7 The tents of the Edomites and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, 8 Naibal and Ammon and Amalek, and foreigners with those who inhabit Tyre, 9 and indeed, even Assyria was ready at the same time with them; they were as a defense for the sons of Lot. Musical interlude 10 Do to them as to Midian and to Sisera, as Jabin in the torrent of Kishon. 11 They were utterly destroyed in Endor; they were as dung for the earth. 12 Set their rulers as Oreb and Zeeb and Zebah and Zalmunna, all their rulers, 13 who said, “Let us inherit for ourselves the altar of God.” 14 O my God, set them as a wheel, as straw in the face of the wind, 15 as a fire that burns up wood, as if a flame burning up mountains. 16 Thus you will pursue them in your storm, and in your anger you will trouble them. 17 Fill their faces with dishonor, and they will seek your name, O Lord. 18 Let them be dishonored, and let them be troubled for eternity of eternity. And let them be shamed, and let them be utterly destroyed. 19 And let them know that your name is Lord; you alone are Most High in all the earth.

83FOR THE END, CONCERNING THE WINEPRESSES, A PSALM BY THE SONS OF KORAH. 2 How beloved are your tents, O Lord of mighty powers. 3 My soul desires and comes to an end for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh rejoiced exceedingly in the living God. 4 For even a sparrow finds for itself a home, and a turtledove a nest for itself, where it will place her young ones, your altar, O Lord of mighty powers, my King and my God. 5 Blessed are all those who dwell in your house. Into the eternity of the eternities they will praise you. Musical interlude 6 Blessed is the man whose help is from you, O Lord. He established ascents in his heart, 7 in the deep valley of weeping, as a place that he set. For even the lawgiver will give blessings. 8 They will go from power to power. The God of gods will be seen in Zion. 9 O Lord, the God of mighty powers, hearken to my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Musical interlude 10 O God, our protector, look, and look down upon the face of your anointed one. 11 For better is one day in your courts than thousands elsewhere. I chose to be cast aside in the house of God more than to live in the tents of sinners. 12 For the Lord loves mercy and truth. God will give grace and glory. The Lord will not be holding back good things for those who walk in innocence. 13 O Lord of mighty powers, blessed is the person who hopes in you!

84FOR THE END, A PSALM BY THE SONS OF KORAH. 2 You were well pleased, O Lord, with your earth. You returned the captivity of Jacob. 3 You forgave the lawlessness of your people. You covered their sins. Musical interlude 4 You stopped your anger. You turned back from the anger of your wrath. 5 Return us, O God of our deliverances, and turn away your wrath from us. 6 You will not be angry against us for eternity, nor will you stretch out your anger from generation to generation, will you? 7 O God, you returned; you will make us alive, and your people will be cheerful in you. 8 Show us, O Lord, Your mercy, and give, O Lord, your salvation to us. 9 I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me, because he will speak peace for his people and for his holy ones and those who turn their heart to him. 10 But his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that glory would dwell in our land. 11 Mercy and truth met together. Righteousness and peace embraced. 12 Truth grew up from the land, and righteousness looked down from the heavens. 13 Indeed, the Lord will give goodness, and our land will give its fruit. 14 Righteousness will go before him, and it will place his steps on the way.

85Incline your ear, O Lord, and listen to me, because I am needy and poor. 2 Guard my soul because I am holy. Save your servant, O my God, the one who hopes in you. 3 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, because to you I will cry aloud the whole day. 4 Gladden the soul of your servant, because to you, O Lord, I lifted up my soul. 5 For you, O Lord, are good and fair and very merciful to all who invoke you. 6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer, and pay attention to the voice of my entreaty. 7 In the day of my affliction I cried aloud to you, because you gave ear to me. 8 There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, and there is nothing like your works. 9 All the nations, as many as you made, will be present, and they will bow down before you, O Lord, and they will glorify your name, 10 because you are great, and you are doing wondrous things. You are the only great God. 11 Lead me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth. Let my heart be made cheerful to fear your name. 12 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name for eternity, 13 because your mercy is great upon me, and you rescued my soul from the lowest Hades. 14 O God, lawless persons rose up against me, and the assembly of the strong sought my life. They did not set you before them. 15 But you, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering and very merciful and true. 16 Look upon me and have mercy upon me. Give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your female servant. 17 Make with me a sign for good, and let those who hate me see, and let them be dishonored, because you, O Lord, helped and comforted me.

86His foundations are among the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the tents of Jacob. 3 Things, having been glorified, were spoken concerning you, O city of God. Musical interlude 4 I will remember Rahab and Babylon to those knowing me. And look, foreigners and Tyre and the people of Ethiopia, these were born there. 5 “Mother Zion,” a person will speak, and a person was born in it, and he, the Most High, laid the foundation of it. 6 The Lord will describe it in the writing of these peoples and rulers who have been born in it. Musical interlude 7 The dwelling of all in you, how they are cheerful!

87aA SONG OF A PSALM BY THE SONS OF KORAH; FOR THE END, CONCERNING MAELETH TO ANSWER HIM; OF UNDERSTANDING FOR HEMAN THE EZRAHITE. 2 Lord, God of my salvation, for days and at night I cried aloud before you. 3 Let my prayer come before you. Bend your ear to my entreaty, O Lord. 4 For my soul was filled with evils, and my life came near to Hades. 5 I was reckoned with those who are going down to the pit. I became as a helpless person, 6 free among the dead, as thrown in with wounded ones going down in the grave, whom you remembered no more, and they were rejected from your hand. 7 They placed me in the lowest pit, in the dark and in the shadow of death. 8 Your wrath rested upon me, and you brought all your breakers upon me. Musical interlude 9 You distanced my acquaintances from me. They placed me as an abomination for themselves. I was delivered, and I was not going out. 10 My eyes were weak from poverty. And I cried aloud to you, O Lord, the whole day. I spread out my hands. 11 You do not do wondrous things for the dead ones, do you? Or will physicians rise up and give thanks to you? 12 There is no one to describe your mercy in the grave, is there? And there is no one to describe your truth in the destruction, is there? 13 Your wondrous things will not be understood in the darkness, will they? And your righteousness will not be understood in the forgotten land, will it? 14 And I cried out to you, O Lord, and in the morning my prayer will come near to you. 15 Why, O Lord, do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn back your face from me? 16 I am needy and in troubles from my youth, but, although raised up, I was made low and greatly troubled. 17 Your wraths came upon me, and your terrors stirred me up. 18 They encircled me like water the whole day; they surrounded me together. 19 You distanced from me friend and my acquaintances, because of my misery.

88OF UNDERSTANDING FOR ETHAN THE EZRAHITE. 2 Your mercies, O Lord, I will sing for eternity. From generation to generation I will report your truth with my mouth. 3 For you said, “Mercy will restore for eternity.” In the heavens your truth will be prepared. 4 “I established a covenant for my chosen ones; I swore to my servant David, 5 ‘Until eternity I will prepare your seed, and I will build your throne from generation to generation.’ ” Musical interlude 6 The heavens will confess your wondrous things, O Lord, and your truth in the assembly of holy ones. 7 For who in the clouds will be likened to the Lord? And who will be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? 8 God is glorified in the counsel of holy ones. He is great and awesome upon all those who are around him. 9 O Lord, God of mighty powers, who is like you? You are strong, O Lord, and your truth is around you. 10 You are Lord over the strength of the sea. And you calm the surging of its waves. 11 You made low the arrogant as a wounded one, and with the arm of your power you scattered your enemies. 12 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You laid down the foundation of the inhabited world and the fullness of it. 13 You created the north wind and seas. Tabor and Hermon will rejoice exceedingly to your name. 14 Yours is the arm with powerful acts. Let your hand be strengthened. Let your right hand be exalted. 15 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Mercy and truth will go before your face. 16 Blessed are the people who know the war cry, O Lord. In the light of your face they will go. 17 And in your name they will rejoice exceedingly the whole day, and in your righteousness they will be raised up. 18 For you are the boast of their power, and our horn will be raised up in your good pleasure. 19 For our help is from the Lord, and from the holy one of Israel, our King. 20 Then you spoke in a vision to your sons and said, “I placed help for the strong one. I lifted up high the chosen one from my people. 21 I found my servant David. With holy compassion I anointed him. 22 For my hand will help him, and my arm will overpower him. 23 An enemy will not benefit in him, and a son of lawlessness will not continue to mistreat him. 24 And I will cut up his enemies from the face of him, and those who hate him I will put to flight. 25 And my truth and my mercy are with him, and in my name his horn will be raised up. 26 And I will place his hand in the sea, and his right hand in rivers. 27 He will invoke me, ‘You are my father, my God, and the protector of my salvation.’ 28 And I will place him as firstborn, high above the kings of the earth. 29 For eternity I will keep my mercy for him, and my covenant is faithful to him. 30 And I will establish his seed into the eternity of eternity, and his throne as the days of the heavens. 31 If his sons forsake my law, and they do not walk in my judgments, 32 if they profane my righteous duties, and they do not keep my commandments, 33 I will visit their lawlessness with a rod, and with whips their sins. 34 But never ever will I scatter abroad my mercy away from him, nor ever will I do wrong in my truth. 35 Never ever will I profane my covenant, and that which comes out through my lips never ever will I reject. 36 Once I swore in my holy placeif ever I would lie to David!— 37 his seed will remain for eternity, and his throne will be as the sun before me, 38 and as the moon, having been established for eternity, and my witness in the heavens is faithful. Musical interlude 39 But you rejected and scorned. You postponed your anointed one. 40 You overturned the covenant of your servant. You profaned to the earth his sanctuary. 41 You destroyed all his fences. You placed his strongholds as cowardice. 42 All those who traveled through the road plundered him. He became a reproach to his neighbors. 43 You lifted high the right hand of his enemies. You made all his enemies cheerful. 44 You turned away the help of his sword, and you did not help him in the battle. 45 You deprived him from purification. You broke down his throne to the earth. 46 You diminished the days of his throne. You poured shame over him. Musical interlude 47 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away completely? Will your anger burn like a fire? 48 Remember what is my actual being, for you did not create all the sons of humans in vain. 49 Who is the person who will live and not see death? Who will rescue his soul from the hand of Hades? Musical interlude 50 Where are your ancient mercies, O Lord, which you swore to David in your truth? 51 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of your servants, which I bore in my bosom from many nations, 52 from which your enemies reproached, O Lord, from which they reproached the ransom of your anointed one. 53 Blessed is the Lord for eternity! May it be! May it be!

89Lord, you were a place of refuge for us from generation to generation. 2 Before mountains were made and the earth and the inhabited world formed, and from eternity until eternity you are. 3 Do not turn back humanity to lowliness. But you said, “Return, O sons of humans.” 4 For a thousand years in your eyes are as the day of yesterday that passed by and as a watch at night. 5 Their contempt will be years. In the morning may they pass by like grass. 6 In the morning may it blossom and pass away. In the evening may it fall away, be hardened and dried up. 7 For we came to an end at your anger, and at your wrath we were troubled. 8 You placed our lawlessnesses before you. Our eternity is in the illumination of your face. 9 For all our days came to an end, and at your anger we came to an end. Our years were meditated on like a spider’s web. 10 The days of our years, in years are seventy years. But if in power they might be eighty years. Then even the majority of them are work and toil, because humility has come upon us, and we will be disciplined. 11 Who knows the strength of your anger, and to count from the fear of your wrath? 12 Make known your right hand, and those who are instructed in their heart with wisdom. 13 Return, O Lord. How long? And give comfort for your servants. 14 In the morning we were satisfied of your mercy, and we rejoiced exceedingly and were cheerful with all our days, 15 because for days in which you made us low, for years in which we saw evil things. 16 And see over your servants and your works, and lead their children. 17 And let the splendor of the Lord, our God, be upon us, and make straight the work of our hands for us.

90The one dwelling in the support of the Most High, in the protection of the God of the heavens, that one will find lodging. 2 That one will say to God, “You are my helper and my refuge, my God, I will hope upon him,” 3 because he will rescue from the trap of hunters and from a terrifying word. 4 With his shoulders he will overshadow you, and under his wings you will have hope; with a shield his truth will surround you. 5 That one will not be afraid from fear by night, from the arrow flying by day, 6 from the deed carried out in darkness, from mishap and demon at midday. 7 A thousand will fall from your side, and ten thousand from your right side. But they will not come near to you. 8 But with your eyes you will understand, and you will see to the recompenses of sinners. 9 For you, O Lord, are my hope. You placed the Most High as your refuge. 10 Evil things will not come to you, and a whip will not come near to your tent, 11 because he will command his angels concerning you, to guard you in your ways. 12 Upon hands they will lift you, lest you strike your feet against a stone. 13 You will tread upon snake and serpent, and you will trample down lion and dragon.[17] 14 For in me he hoped, and I will rescue him. I will shelter him because he knew my name. 15 He will invoke me, and I will listen to him. I am with him in affliction, and I will deliver and honor him. 16 With length of days I will satisfy him, and I will show him my salvation.

91aA PSALM OF A SONG FOR THE DAY OF THE SABBATH. 2 It is good to give thanks to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High, 3 to report in the morning your mercy, and your truth each night, 4 with a ten-stringed harp, with a lyre in song. 5 For you made me cheerful, O Lord, with your action, and with the works of your hands I will rejoice exceedingly. 6 How your works were magnified, O Lord! Your thoughts were made very heavy. 7 A foolish man will not comprehend, and a senseless one will not understand these things. 8 When the sinners grow up like grass, also all those who are working lawlessness looked down, so that they would be utterly destroyed for eternity of eternity. 9 But you are the Most High for eternity, O Lord. 10 For look, your enemies will perish, and all those who are working lawlessness will be scattered abroad. 11 But my horn will be raised up as a unicorn, and my old age will be with good olive oil. 12 And my eyes looked on my enemies, and my ear will listen to those acting wickedly, who rise up against me. 13 The righteous will bloom like a palm tree; like the cedar that is in Lebanon he will increase. 14 Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of our God. 15 Then they will increase in old age with plenty, and they will be well off 16 to report that the Lord, my God, is righteous, and there is no injustice in him.

92The Lord rules. He wears dignity. The Lord wears and is girded with strength. For even he made firm the inhabited world, which will not be shaken. 2 Your throne is prepared from then on; you are from eternity. 3 The rivers lifted, O Lord; the rivers lifted up their voices. 4 From the voices of many waters wonderful are the breakers of the sea. Marvelous is the Lord in the heights. 5 The testimonies of you are very much established. Holiness is fitting for your house, O Lord, for all length of days.

93The God of vengeance is the Lord; the God of vengeance spoke boldly. 2 Be lifted up, O you who judge the earth. Repay recompense to the arrogant. 3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners boast? 4 They will utter and speak injustice. All who work lawlessness will speak. 5 They made your people low, O Lord, and they mistreated your inheritance. 6 They killed the widow and orphan, and they slayed the immigrant. 7 And they said, “The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob understand.” 8 Understand indeed, O foolish ones among the people, and, you stupid ones, be wise at last. 9 The one planting the ear, does he not hear? Or the one who formed the eyes, does he not understand? 10 The one who disciplines nations, does he not reprove, the one teaching humanity knowledge? 11 The Lord knows the thoughts of humans, that they are vain. 12 Blessed is the person whom you discipline, O Lord, and from the law you teach him, 13 to give him rest from evil days until when a hole is dug for the sinner. 14 For the Lord will not reject his people, and he will not forsake his inheritance 15 until righteousness turns to judgment, and all those beside it are upright in their heart. Musical interlude 16 Who will rise up with me against those acting wickedly, or who will be alongside of me against those working lawlessness? 17 If it wasn’t that the Lord helped me, my soul would have dwelt in Hades for a little. 18 If I were to say, “My foot is shaken,” your mercy, O Lord, would help me. 19 O Lord, according to the greatness of my pain in my heart your encouragements loved my soul. 20 Certainly it is not that a throne of lawlessness, which forms trouble against your ordinance, is present with you, is it? 21 They will hunt against the soul of the righteous one, and they will condemn innocent blood. 22 And the Lord came to me as a refuge, and my God as a helper of my hope. 23 And he will render to them their lawlessness and their wickedness, the Lord, our God, will remove them from sight.

94O come, let us rejoice to the Lord! Let us shout aloud to God, our Savior. 2 Let us come near his face with thanksgiving, and with psalms let us shout aloud to him. 3 For God is a great Lord and a great king above all gods, 4 because the Lord will not reject his people. For in his hand are the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his. 5 Because his is the sea and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6 O come, let us bow down and fall before him, and let us weep before the Lord who made us, 7 because he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. 8 Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of testing in the desert, 9 when your fathers tested; they scrutinized and saw my works. 10 For forty years I was irritated with that generation, and I said, “They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not understand my ways.” 11 As I swore in my anger, “They will surely not enter into my repose.”

95Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Sing to the Lord! Bless his name! Bring good news day by day of his salvation! 3 Report among the nations his glory, among all the peoples his wondrous things. 4 For great is the Lord and very praiseworthy. He is more awesome than all the gods. 5 For all the gods of the nations are demons, but the Lord made the heavens. 6 Thanksgiving and beauty are before him. Holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary. 7 Bring to the Lord, you families of the nations, bring to the Lord glory and honor. 8 Bring to the Lord glory to his name! Lift up sacrifices and enter into his courts. 9 Worship the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be shaken from the face of him. 10 Say among the nations, “The Lord rules, and indeed, he set up the inhabited world, which will not be shaken. He will judge peoples in uprightness.” 11 Be cheerful, O heavens, and let the earth rejoice exceedingly. Let the sea be shaken, and the fullness of it. 12 The fields and all that is in them will rejoice. At that time all the trees of the wood will rejoice exceedingly 13 before the face of the Lord, because he is coming, because he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness, and the peoples in his truth.

96The Lord rules! The earth will rejoice exceedingly. Let the many islands be cheerful. 2 Cloud and darkness are around him. Righteousness and judgment are upholding his throne. 3 Fire will go forth before him and will burn up his enemies in a circle. 4 His lightning illuminated the inhabited earth. The earth saw and was shaken. 5 The mountains melted as beeswax from the face of the Lord, all the earth from the face of the Lord. 6 The heavens reported his righteousness, and all the peoples saw his glory. 7 Let them be dishonored, all those who worship carved idols, those who pride themselves in their idols. Worship him, all his angels![18] 8 Zion heard and was cheerful, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced exceedingly because of your judgments, O Lord, 9 because you are the Lord Most High over all the earth. You were exalted very much beyond all the gods. 10 Those who love the Lord hate evil. The Lord guards the souls of his holy ones. From the hand of sinners he will rescue them. 11 Light grew up to the righteous one, and to the upright ones in their heart there is cheer. 12 Be cheerful, O righteous ones, in the Lord, and give thanks to the memory of his holiness.

97Sing to the Lord a new song, because the Lord did wonderful things. His right hand and his holy arm saved for him. 2 The Lord made known his salvation before the nations. He disclosed his righteousness. 3 He remembered his mercy to Jacob and his truthfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth saw the salvation of our God. 4 Shout aloud to God, all the earth! Sing and rejoice exceedingly and sing psalms! 5 Sing psalms to the Lord with a lyre, with a lyre and a voice of a psalm! 6 With silver trumpet and the sound of a horn trumpet shout aloud to the Lord before the king. 7 Let the sea and the fullness of it be shaken, the inhabited world and those who dwell in it. 8 The rivers will clap in hand together; the mountains will rejoice exceedingly, 9 because he comes near to judge the earth, to judge the inhabited world in righteousness and the peoples in uprightness.

98The Lord reigns, let the peoples be angry! The one who is seated over the cherubim, let the earth be shaken! 2 The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high over all the peoples. 3 Let everyone give thanks to your great name, because it is awesome and holy. 4 And the honor of the king loves justice. You prepared uprightness. You made justice and righteousness in Jacob. 5 Lift high the Lord, our God, and worship at the footstool of his feet. 6 Holy are Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who invoke his name. They invoked the Lord, and he heard them. 7 In a pillar of a cloud he was speaking to them. He was guarding his testimonies and the ordinances that he gave to them. 8 O Lord, our God, you heard them. O God, you were very merciful to them, even punishing all their practices. 9 Lift high the Lord, our God, and worship in his holy mountain, because holy is the Lord, our God.

99Shout aloud to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Serve the Lord with cheer. Enter before him with great joy. 3 Know that he is the Lord. God himself made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with hymns. Give thanks to him! Praise his name! 5 For good is the Lord; his mercy is for eternity, and from generation to generation is his truthfulness.

100I will sing of mercy and justice to you, O Lord. 2 I will sing psalms and stand in the blameless way. How long until you will be present to me? I was walking along in the innocence of my heart in the middle of my house. 3 I did not set forth before my eyes a lawless deed. I hated those doing transgression. A crooked heart did not cleave to me. 4 For as much as he is turning away from me, I was not knowing the evil one. 5 The one who speaks secretly against his neighbor, this one I was banishing. With the arrogant eye and the insatiated heart, with this person I was not eating. 6 My eyes are upon the faithful ones of the earth, to dwell with them. The one going with me in the blameless way, this one ministers for me. 7 The one doing arrogance is not dwelling in the middle of my house. The one speaking unjust things did not go directly before my eyes. 8 In the morning I was slaying all the sinners of the earth, to destroy utterly from the city of the Lord all those who are working injustice.

101aA PRAYER FOR THE POOR, WHENEVER HE IS IN ANGUISH AND POURS OUT HIS ENTREATY BEFORE THE LORD. 2 Hear, O Lord, my prayer, and let my crying come to you. 3 Do not turn back your face from me. In whichever day I am afflicted, bend your ear to me. In whichever day I invoke you, quickly give ear to me. 4 For my days came to an end like smoke, and my bones were burned up like firewood. 5 I was struck like grass, and my heart was dried up, because I was forgetting to eat my bread. 6 From the voice of my groaning, my bones clung to my flesh. 7 I was like a pelican in solitude; I became like a night-raven on a building site. 8 I lay awake, and I became like a sparrow alone upon a rooftop. 9 The whole day my enemies were reproaching me, and those who used to praise me swore an oath against me. 10 For I ate ashes like bread, and I was mixing my drink with weeping. 11 From the face of your anger and your wrath, that you stirred up, you dashed me down. 12 My days like a shadow were poured out, and I dried up like grass. 13 But you, O Lord, remain for eternity, and your remembrance from generation to generation. 14 Arising, you will have mercy upon Zion, because it is time to have pity on it, because the time has arrived, 15 because your servants were well pleased with the stones of it, and they will have pity on the dust of it. 16 And the nations will fear your name, O Lord, all the kings your glory. 17 For the Lord restores Zion, and it will be seen in his glory. 18 He looked down upon the prayer of the low ones, and he did not scorn their entreaty. 19 Let this be written for another generation, and a people, which is being created, will praise the Lord, 20 because he looked out from the heights of his holy place, the Lord looked down from the heavens upon the earth, 21 to hear the groaning of those bound fast, to loosen the children of those who have been put to death, 22 to report in Zion the name of the Lord and his praise in Jerusalem, 23 while peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to serve the Lord. 24 He answered him in the way of his strength, “Declare to me the fewness of my days.” 25 Do not take me in the middle of my days; in generation and generations are your years. 26 In the beginning you, O Lord, laid down the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. 27 They will perish. But you remain, and all like a garment will be worn out, and like a covering you will roll them, and they will be changed. 28 But you are the same, and your years will not come to an end. 29 The children of your servants will live, and the seed of them will be directed for eternity.

102Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, his holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his praise, 3 the one who is merciful toward all your lawlessness, the one who heals all your sicknesses, 4 the one who redeems your life from destruction, the one who crowns you with mercy and compassions, 5 the one who satisfies your desire with good; your youth will be renewed like an eagle. 6 The one doing mercy is the Lord, and bringing justice to all those who are wronged. 7 He made his ways known to Moses, his decrees to the children of Israel. 8 Compassionate and merciful is the Lord, longsuffering and very merciful. 9 He will not be angry in the end, nor will he be wrathful for eternity. 10 He did not do to us according to our sins, nor did he repay us according to our acts of lawlessness, 11 because, according to the height of the heavens from the earth, the Lord strengthened his mercy upon those who fear him. 12 According to how much the east is from the west, he distances from us our acts of lawlessness. 13 And as a father is compassionate toward children, the Lord is compassionate toward those who fear him, 14 because he knew our frame. Remember that we are dust. 15 A person is like grass; his days are as a blossom of the field, thus he will flourish, 16 because the wind passed by on it, and it will not be there, and it does not yet know its place. 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and until eternity upon those who fear him, and his righteousness upon the children of children, 18 to those who keep his covenant and remember his commandments to do them. 19 The Lord in the heavens prepared his throne, and his kingdom lords over all. 20 Bless the Lord, all his angels, O strong ones in strength making his word, to hear the voice of his words. 21 Bless the Lord, all his powers, O servants of him who do his will. 22 Bless the Lord, all his works, in every place of his lordship. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

103Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord, Lord my God, as you were very great. You wore thanksgiving and dignity, 2 throwing off light as a garment, stretching the heavens as a cloak; 3 the one who covers his upper parts with waters, the one who places clouds as his steps, the one who walks about upon the wings of the wind, 4 the one who makes his angels spirits, and his public servants burning fire. 5 He laid the foundation of the earth upon its stability; it will not be moved for eternity of eternity. 6 The deep, like a garment, is his covering; over the mountains waters will be established. 7 From your censure they will flee. From the voice of your thunder they will be afraid. 8 Mountains go up, and plains go down, in the places that you have laid down for them. 9 A border you placed that they will not pass, nor shall they return to cover up the earth. 10 He is the one who sends the springs away in the ravines; waters will go through between the mountains. 11 They will give drink to all the beasts of the field. The wild ass will receive for their drink. 12 Upon them the birds of the heavens will dwell. From the middle of the stones they will give a sound. 13 He gives water to mountains from his upper parts; from the fruit of your works the earth will be satisfied. 14 He causes grass to spring up for the livestock, and tender grass for the toil of humanity, to bring out bread from the earth. 15 And wine delights the heart of a person, to gladden the face; with olive oil and bread he strengthens the heart of a person. 16 The trees of the plains will be satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. 17 There sparrows will make a nest. The house of the heron goes before him. 18 Mountains are the high places for the deer. Rocks are a place of refuge for the rabbits. 19 He made the moon for seasons; the sun knew its setting. 20 You placed darkness, and it became night; in it all the beasts of the forest will pass through. 21 Lions are roaring to seize and to seek from God their food. 22 The sun arises, and they will be gathered, and in their dens they will be put to sleep. 23 A person will come out for his work and for his labor until evening. 24 How your works were magnified, O Lord. You made all things in wisdom. The earth was filled with your creation. 25 This is the great and wide sea; in that place are creeping animals whose number does not exist, living beings, small with great, 26 this dragon that you formed to play in it. 27 All things await for you to give to them well-timed food. 28 When you give to them, they will gather. When you open your hand, Everything shall be filled with goodness. 29 But when you turn back your face, they will be troubled. You will remove their spirit, and they will come to an end, and they will return to their dust. 30 You will send forth your spirit, and they will be created, and you will renew the face of the earth. 31 Let the glory of the Lord be for eternity! The Lord will be cheerful in his works, 32 the one who looks down upon the earth and makes it tremble, the one who touches the mountains and they smoke. 33 I will sing to the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God as long as I exist. 34 May my account be sweet to him! And I will be cheerful in the Lord. 35 May sinners come to an end from the land, and the lawless ones, so that they do not exist. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

104bGive thanks to the Lord and call upon his name. Announce his works among the nations. 2 Sing to him and sing psalms to him. Narrate all his wondrous things. 3 Praise in his holy name. Let the heart of those seeking the Lord be cheerful. 4 Seek the Lord and be strengthened. Seek his face through everything. 5 Remember the wondrous things that he did, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth, 6 O seed of Abraham, his servants, the children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 7 He is the Lord, our God; in all the earth are his judgments. 8 His covenant is remembered for eternity, the word that he commanded for a thousand generations, 9 which he established with Abraham, and his oath with Isaac. 10 And he established it with Jacob for an ordinance and an eternal covenant with Israel, 11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as an allotment of your inheritance.” 12 When they were small in number, few and sojourners in it, 13 they also went through from nation to nation, from kingdom to another people. 14 He did not permit a person to wrong them, and he reproved kings for them, 15 “You shall not touch my anointed ones, and with my prophets do not act wickedly.” 16 And he called a famine in the land; every provision of bread he crushed. 17 He sent before them a person; Joseph was sold as a servant. 18 They abased his feet with fetters; his soul went through with iron 19 until his word came; the word of the Lord inflamed him. 20 The king sent forth and unbound him, a ruler of peoples, and he spared him. 21 He established him as lord of his house and a ruler of all his possessions, 22 to train his rulers to be like himself and to instruct his elders. 23 And Israel entered into Egypt, and Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people very much, and strengthened him more than his enemies. 25 And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal treacherously with his servants. 26 He sent forth Moses, his servant, Aaron, him whom he chose. 27 He set in them the words of his signs and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent forth darkness and made it dark, and they provoked his words. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and he killed their fish. 30 Their land swarmed with frogs in the storehouses of their kingdoms. 31 He spoke and dog-flies came, and fleas in all their borders. 32 He set their rain as hail; burning fire was in their land. 33 And he struck their vines and their fig trees, and he crushed every tree of their border. 34 He spoke, and locust and grasshopper came, of whom there was no number. 35 And they devoured all the grass in their land, and they devoured the fruit of their land. 36 And he struck every firstborn from their land, the first fruits of all their toil. 37 And he led them out with silver and gold, and there were no poor ones in their tribes. 38 Egypt was cheerful with their going out, because fear of them fell upon them. 39 He spread out a cloud as shelter for them, and fire to give light to them during the night. 40 They asked, and quail came, and with bread of the heavens he satisfied them. 41 He broke through rock, and waters overflowed; rivers came in dry times. 42 For he remembered his holy word that was with Abraham, his servant, 43 and he led out his people with great joy and his chosen ones with cheer. 44 And he gave to them a territory of the nations, and they inherited the hard work of peoples, 45 that they would keep his duties and would seek his law.

105Give thanks to the Lord because he is kind, because his mercy is for eternity. 2 Who will speak the powerful acts of the Lord? Who will make audible all his praises? 3 Blessed are those who guard justice and who do righteousness with every occasion. 4 Remember us, O Lord, with the good pleasure of your people, to visit us with your salvation, 5 that we may see with goodness of your chosen ones, that we are cheerful with the cheer of your nation, that we may praise with your inheritance. 6 We were sinning with our fathers; we acted lawlessly; we did wrong. 7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand your wondrous things. And they did not remember the magnitude of your mercy, and they were provoked, going up in the Red Sea. 8 And he saved them because of his name, to make known his power. 9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up, and he led them in the deep as in the desert. 10 And he saved them from the hands of those who hate, and he delivered them from the hand of the enemy. 11 And water covered those who afflicted them; not one from them was left remaining. 12 And they trusted in his words and glorified his praise. 13 They were quickened. They forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel. 14 And they desired desire in the desert, and they tested God in the dry land. 15 And he gave them their request, and he sent forth excess into their soul. 16 And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord. 17 The earth opened and devoured Dathan and covered over the assembly of Abiram. 18 And fire was burned in their assembly, and a flame burned down sinners. 19 And they made a young bull in Horeb and worshiped the carved thing. 20 And they exchanged their glory with the likeness of a young bull eating grass.[19] 21 They forgot the God who saves them, who made great things in Egypt, 22 wonderful things in the land of Ham, and awesome things in the Red Sea. 23 And he spoke to utterly destroy them, if Moses, his chosen, did not stand before him in the destruction, to turn back from the wrath of his anger, to not destroy them utterly. 24 And they scorned the desirable land, and they did not trust his word. 25 And they grumbled in their tents; they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord. 26 And he lifted his hand against them, to strike them down in the desert, 27 and to strike down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them abroad among the territories. 28 And they were consecrated to Baal-peor and ate sacrifices of the dead. 29 And they irritated him with their practices, and their destruction was increased against him. 30 And Phinehas stood and made propitiation, and the slaughter stopped. 31 And it was reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever. 32 And they provoked upon the water of controversy, and Moses was mistreated on account of them, 33 because they provoked his spirit, and he separated his lips. 34 They did not utterly destroy the nations, which the Lord said. 35 And they mingled with the nations and learned their works. 36 And they served their carved idols, and it became to them as a stumbling block. 37 And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons, 38 and they poured out innocent blood, blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the carved idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with the murders. 39 And it was defiled with their works, and they acted unfaithfully with their practices. 40 And the Lord was angered with wrath over his people, and was abhorred with his inheritance. 41 And he delivered them into the hands of the nations, and those who hated them ruled them. 42 And their enemies afflicted them, and they were brought low under their hands. 43 Many times he rescued them. But they provoked in their counsel, and they were brought low in their lawlessness. 44 And he saw when they were afflicted, when he gave an ear to their prayer. 45 And he remembered his covenant, and he repented according to the magnitude of his mercy. 46 And he gave them into compassion before all who imprisoned them. 47 Save us, O Lord, our God, and gather us from the nations, that we could give thanks to your holy name, that we could boast loudly in the praise of you. 48 Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, from eternity and until eternity, and all the people will say, “May it be!”

106bGive thanks to the Lord because he is kind, because his mercy is for eternity. 2 Let those who have been redeemed by the Lord speak, whom he delivered from the hand of the enemy. 3 From the territories he gathered them, from east and west and north and sea. 4 They were led astray in the desert in the dry land. They did not find the way to a city of habitation. 5 Hungering and thirsting, their soul came to an end among them. 6 And they cried aloud to the Lord when they were afflicted, and from their tribulations he rescued them. 7 And he led them into the upright way, that they would go into the city of habitation. 8 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercies, and for his wondrous things to the sons of humans, 9 because he satisfied the vain soul, and he satisfied the hungering soul with good things, 10 those seated in darkness and the shadow of death, those having been bound fast in poverty and in iron, 11 because they provoked the words of God, and they angered the counsel of the Most High. 12 And their heart was brought low in troubles; they were weakened, and there was not the one who helps. 13 And they cried aloud to the Lord when they were afflicted, and from their tribulations he saved them. 14 And he led them out from darkness and from the shadow of death, and he broke through their bonds. 15 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercies, and for his wondrous things to the sons of humans, 16 because he crushed gates of brass, and he shattered the iron bars. 17 He helped them from their way of lawlessness. For on account of their acts of lawlessness they were brought low. 18 Their soul abhorred every food, and they came near to the gates of death. 19 And they cried aloud to the Lord when they were afflicted, and from their tribulations he saved them. 20 He sent his word and healed them, and he rescued them from their destructions. 21 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercies, and for his wondrous things to the sons of humans. 22 And let them sacrifice a sacrifice of praise, and let them proclaim his works with great joy. 23 Those who come down into the sea with ships, making business on many waters, 24 let see them the works of the Lord and his wondrous things in the deep. 25 He spoke, and a wind of storm stood, and the waves of it were lifted up. 26 They went up to the heavens and down to the depths; their soul in evil things was melting down. 27 They were troubled, they were shaken like one who is drunk, and all their wisdom was devoured. 28 And they cried aloud to the Lord when they were afflicted, and from their tribulations he led them out. 29 And he established its storm, and its waves were still. 30 And they were cheerful because they were at rest, and he led them to the care of his will. 31 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercies, and for his wondrous things to the sons of humans. 32 Let them raise him up in the assembly of the people, and let them praise him in the seat of elders. 33 He set rivers in the desert, and the rushing out of waters for drink, 34 a fruitful land into brine, from the wickedness of those who dwell in it. 35 He set the desert into a harbor of waters. 36 And he caused those who were hungry to dwell there, and they established a city of dwelling. 37 And they sowed fields and planted vineyards, and they made the fruit of produce. 38 And he blessed them, and they were increased very much, and he did not diminish their livestock. 39 And they were diminished and mistreated from the affliction of evils and pain. 40 Contempt was poured out upon rulers, and he led them astray in an inaccessible way and what was not a road. 41 And he received help for the poor from poverty, and he set them as sheep of the nation. 42 The upright ones will see and be cheerful, and all lawlessness will block up its mouth. 43 Who is wise and will guard these things, and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

107aA SONG OF A PSALM BY DAVID. 2 My heart is prepared, O God; my heart is ready. I will sing and sing psalms in my glory. 3 Rise, O harp and lyre. I will awaken at dawn. 4 I will give thanks to you among peoples, O Lord. And I will sing psalms to you among nations. 5 For great is your mercy above the heavens, and unto the clouds is your truthfulness. 6 Be lifted up to the heavens, O God, and over all the earth your glory. 7 So that your beloved ones would be rescued, save with your right hand, and hear me. 8 God spoke in his holy place, “I will be lifted high, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure out the valley of the tents. 9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the defense of my head; Judah is my king. 10 Moab is the cauldron of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe. To me the foreigners were submitted.” 11 Who will lead me away into a city of fortification? Who will guide me unto Edom? 12 Are you not, O God, the one who rejected us? And you will not come out, O God, in our might. 13 Give to us help from affliction and the vain salvation of humanity. 14 In God we will do with power, and he will set to naught our enemies.

108O God, do not pass over in silence my praise. 2 For the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the treacherous one were opened against me; they spoke against me with a deceitful tongue. 3 And they encircled me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without cause. 4 In the place of my giving love, they accused me falsely. But I, I was praying. 5 And they placed against me evil things in place of good things, and hatred in place of my affection. 6 Set a sinner against him, and let a slanderer stand on his right side. 7 When he judges, may he come out as one who condemns, and let his prayer come to sin. 8 Let his days be few, and may another take away his visitation. 9 Let his children become orphans, and his wife a widow. 10 Afflicted, let his children be removed and beg. Let them be thrown from their building sites. 11 And let a moneylender search out all that belongs to him. Let foreigners plunder all his hard works. 12 Do not let there be a helper for him, nor let there be compassion for his orphans. 13 Let his children be for destruction; in one generation let his name be blotted out. 14 May the sin of his fathers be remembered in the presence of the Lord, and the sin of his mother not be blotted out. 15 Let them be in the presence of the Lord through everything, and may the memory of them be destroyed from the earth. 16 Because he did not remember to do mercy, and he pursued a person, poor and needy and pained in heart, to kill him. 17 And he loved to curse, and it will come to him. And he did not want blessing, and it will be removed from him. 18 And he wore a curse as a garment, and it entered like water into his bowels and like olive oil in his bones. 19 Let it be to him like a garment with which he is clothed, and like a girdle with which he girds himself through everything. 20 This is the work of those who falsely accuse me before the Lord, and of those who speak evil things against my soul. 21 And you, O Lord, Lord, perform mercy with me because of your name, because your mercy is good. Rescue me[20] 22 because I am needy and poor, and my heart has been troubled within me. 23 It was removed like a shadow when it turns away. I was scattered as a locust. 24 My knees were weakened from fasting, and my flesh was changed on account of olive oil. 25 And I became a reproach to them. They saw me. They shook their heads. 26 Help me, O Lord, my God! Save me according to your great mercy. 27 And let them know that this is your hand, and you, O Lord, did it. 28 They will call down curses, and you will bless. Let those who are rising up against me be dishonored. But your servant will be cheerful. 29 Let those who falsely accuse me put on shame, and let them be clothed in shame as with their double cloak. 30 I will give thanks to the Lord very much with my mouth, and in the middle of many things I will praise him, 31 because he was near at the right hand of the poor, to save me from those who pursue my soul.

109The Lord said to my Lord, “Be seated at my right side until I set your enemies as a footstool for your feet.” 2 The Lord will send out a rod of power from Zion, “Rule in the middle of your enemies. 3 With you is authority in the day of your power, with the splendor of the holy ones. From the womb, before the morning, I fathered you.”[21] 4 The Lord swore and will not regret, “You are a priest for eternity according to the order of Melchizedek.” 5 The Lord at your right hand crushed together kings in the day of his anger. 6 He will judge among the nations. He will fill up with corpses. He will crush the heads of many upon the earth. 7 From a torrent in the way he will drink. On account of this he will raise up his head.

110I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart, in the counsel of the upright and in the assembly. 2 Great are the works of the Lord, being sought out for all his decrees. 3 Thanksgiving and majesty are his work, and his righteousness remains for eternity of eternity. 4 He made remembrance of his wondrous things. Merciful and compassionate is the Lord. 5 He gave food to those who fear him. He will remember his covenant for eternity. 6 The strength of his works he made known to his people, to give to them an inheritance of the nations. 7 The works of his hands are truth and justice. Faithful are all his commandments, 8 having been strengthened for eternity of eternity, having been made in truthfulness and uprightness. 9 He sent redemption to his people. He commanded his covenant for eternity. Holy and awesome is his name. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Understanding is good for all those who do it. His praise remains into the eternity of the eternity.

111Blessed is the man who fears the Lord. In his commandments he wants very much. 2 His seed will be strong in the land. The generation of the upright ones will be blessed. 3 Glory and wealth are in his house, and his righteousness remains for eternity of eternity. 4 A light has arisen in darkness for the upright, merciful and compassionate and righteous. 5 Good is the man who is compassionate and lends. He will manage his words in justice. 6 Because he will not be shaken for eternity. The righteous one will be for an eternal remembrance. 7 From the evil report he will not fear. His heart is ready to hope upon the Lord. 8 His heart has been strengthened. He will not fear until he looks upon his enemies. 9 He scattered. He gave to the poor. His righteousness remains for eternity of eternity. His horn will be lifted up in glory. 10 Sinners will see and will be angry. He will gnash his teeth and be melted. The desire of sinners will perish.

112Praise the Lord, O servants! Praise his name. 2 May the name of the Lord be blessed from now and until eternity. 3 From the eastb to west,c the name of the Lord is praised. 4 The Lord is lifted high upon all the nations. His glory is upon the heavens. 5 Who is like the Lord, our God, who dwells on the heights 6 and looks upon the low in the heavens and on earth? 7 He is the one who awakens the needy one from the earth and exalts the poor one from the dunghill, 8 to set him with rulers, with rulers of his people, 9 the one who establishes the barren in a house, like a mother who is cheerful in children.

113eAt the exodus of Israel from Egypt, of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people. 2 Judah became his holiness, Israel his authority. 3 The sea saw and fled. The Jordan turned backwards. 4 The mountains leapt as rams, and the hills as lambs of sheep. 5 What is it, O sea, that you fled, and you, O Jordan, that you went backwards? 6 O mountains, you leapt as rams. 7 From the face of the Lord the land was shaken, from the face of the God of Jacob, 8 who turned the rock into a marshy lake of waters, and the steep slopes into springs of waters. 9 aNot for us, O Lord, not for us, but give glory rather for your name, for your mercy and your truthfulness, 10 lest the nations say, “Where is their God?” 11 But our God is in the heavens above, in the heavens and upon the land. All things, however much he wished, he made. 12 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, works of the hands of humanity. 13 They have a mouth, but they do not speak. They have eyes, but they will not see. 14 They have ears, but they will not hear. They have noses, but they will not smell. 15 They have hands, but they will not grope about. They have feet, but they will not walk about. They will not produce a sound in their throat. 16 May those who make them become like them, and all who trust in them. 17 The house of Israel hoped in the Lord. He is their helper and their protector. 18 The house of Aaron hoped in the Lord. He is their helper and their protector. 19 Those who fear the Lord hoped in him. He is their helper and their protector. 20 The Lord remembered us and blessed us. He blessed the house of Israel. He blessed the house of Aaron. 21 He blessed those who fear the Lord, the small with the great. 22 May the Lord add to you, to you and to your children. 23 Blessed are you to the Lord, to the one who made the heavens and earth. 24 The heaven of the heavens is the Lord’s. But he gave the earth to the sons of humans. 25 The dead will not praise you, O Lord, nor all who go down into Hades, 26 but we who are living should bless the Lord from now and until eternity.

114bI loved, because God will listen to the voice of my petition, 2 because he inclined his ear to me, and in my days I called on him. 3 The labor pangs of death surrounded me. The dangers of Hades found me. I found affliction and pain. 4 And I invoked the name of the Lord, “O Lord, rescue my soul.” 5 The Lord is merciful and righteous, and the Lord, our God, shows mercy. 6 The Lord guards the infants. I was brought low, and he saved me. 7 Return, O my soul, to your rest, because the Lord did you well, 8 because he delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from slipping. 9 I will be well pleasing before the Lord in the territory of the living.

115cI trusted; therefore I spoke. But I was made low very much. 2 I said in my entrancement, “Every person is a liar.” 3 What will I repay to the Lord for what he repaid to me? 4 I will receive a cup of salvation, and I will invoke the name of the Lord. 6 Costly before the Lord is the death of his holy ones. 7 O Lord, I am your servant. I am your servant and son of your female servant. You broke through my bonds. 8 To you I will sacrifice a sacrifice of praise. 9 My vows I will give to the Lord before all his people, 10 in the courts of the house of the Lord, in the middle of you, O Jerusalem.

116bPraise the Lord, all the nations! Glorify him, all the peoples! 2 cFor his mercy was strengthened for us, and the truthfulness of the Lord remains for eternity.

117eGive thanks to the Lord because he is good, because his mercy is for eternity. 2 Let the house of Israel say indeed, “He is good; for his mercy is for eternity.” 3 Let the house of Aaron say indeed, “He is good; for his mercy is for eternity.”f 5 In affliction I invoke the Lord, and he heard me, bringing me into broad spaces. 6 The Lord is a helper to me. I will not fear. What will a person do to me? 7 The Lord is a helper to me. And I will gaze upon my enemies. 8 It is good to trust in the Lord rather than to trust in a person. 9 It is good to hope in the Lord rather than to hope in rulers. 10 All the nations encircled me, and by the name of the Lord I warded them off. 11 Encircling they encircled me, and by the name of the Lord I warded them off. 12 They encircled me like bees a honeycomb, and they were kindled like a fire in brambles, and by the name of the Lord I warded them off. 13 Being pushed, I was overturned to fall, and the Lord supported me. 14 My strength and my praising is the Lord, and it became for me like salvation. 15 The voice of great joy and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of the Lord made force. 16 The right hand of the Lord lifted me. 17 I will not die, but I will live, and I will tell in detail the works of the Lord. 18 With discipline the Lord trained me, and he did not deliver me to death. 19 Open to me, O gates of righteousness. Entering in them, I will give thanks to the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the Lord. The righteous ones will enter in it. 21 I will give thanks to you, because you heard me and became to me as salvation. 22 A stone that those who build rejected, this became as the head of the corner. 23 This became from the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes. 24 This is the day that the Lord made. Let us rejoice and be cheerful in it. 25 O Lord, save indeed! O Lord, help on the way indeed! 26 Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you from the house of the Lord. 27 The Lord is God, and he showed forth for us. Join in the feast with those who cover the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, and I lift you up. I will give thanks to you, because you heard me and became for me as salvation. 29 Give thanks to the Lord because he is good, because his mercy is for eternity!

118Blessed are the blameless in their way, the ones who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are those who examine his testimonies; with their whole heart they seek him out. 3 For those who are working lawlessness do not walk in his ways. 4 You ordered Your commandments to be kept very much. 5 Would that my ways would be directed so that your duties would be kept. 6 At that time I will never ever be ashamed while I look upon all your commandments. 7 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with uprightness of heart while I have comprehended the judgments of your righteousness. 8 Your duties I will keep, lest you forsake me to the extreme. 9 How will the young person direct his way? By keeping your words. 10 With my whole heart I sought you. Let me not depart from your commandments. 11 In my heart I hid your words so that I would never sin against you. 12 Blessed are you, O Lord. Teach me your duties. 13 With my lips I have proclaimed all the judgments of your mouth. 14 In the way of your testimonies I was delighted as in all wealth. 15 On your commandments I will chatter, and I will seek out your ways. 16 On your duties I will meditate. I will not forget your words. 17 Repay your servant. I will live and keep your words. 18 Uncover my eyes, and I will perceive your wondrous things from your law. 19 I am a sojourner on the earth. Do not turn away your commandments from me. 20 My soul was persuaded to desire for your duties in every occasion. 21 You rebuked the arrogant ones. Accursed are those who turn away from your commandments. 22 Take away from me reproach and scorn, because I sought out your testimonies. 23 Indeed, the rulers sat; they were speaking against me. But your servant was chattering on your duties. 24 Indeed, your testimonies are a care of mine, and my counsels are your duties. 25 My soul was glued to the ground. I recovered according to your word. 26 I proclaimed your ways, and you heard me. Teach me your duties. 27 And instruct me in the way of your duties, and I will chatter on your wondrous things. 28 My soul dozed from weariness. Establish me in your words. 29 Remove from me the way of injustice, and by your law have mercy upon me. 30 The way of truth I selected. Your judgments I did not forget. 31 I was glued to your testimonies, O Lord. Do not disgrace me. 32 I ran the way of your commandments when you widened my heart. 33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your duties, and I will seek it through everything. 34 Instruct me, and I will seek out your law, and I will keep it with my whole heart. 35 Lead me in the path of your commandments, because I wanted it. 36 Bend my heart to your testimonies and not to greediness. 37 Turn back my eyes so that they do not see futility; make me alive in your way. 38 Establish your word for your servant in fear of you. 39 Take away my disgrace, which I feared. For your judgments are kind. 40 Look, I desired for your commandments. With your righteousness make me alive. 41 And may your mercy come upon me, O Lord, your salvation according to your mercy. 42 And I will answer a word to those who reproach me, that I have placed my hope in your words. 43 And do not take a word of truth from my mouth to the extreme, because I have hoped in your judgments. 44 And I will keep your law through everything, for eternity and into the eternity of the eternity. 45 And I walk in the broad space because I have sought out your commandments. 46 And I was speaking in your testimonies before kings, and I was not ashamed. 47 And I was meditating on your commandments, which you loved very much. 48 And I lifted up my hands to your commandments, for which you loved very much, and I was chattering on your duties. 49 Remember your word to your servants, in which you have given hope to me. 50 This comforted me in my lowliness, because I was not turned away from your word. 52 I remembered your judgments from eternity, O Lord, and I was comforted. 53 Discouragement possessed me from sinners, those who left behind your law. 54 Your duties were songs to me in the place of my sojourning. 55 I remembered your name at night, O Lord, and I kept your law. 56 This became mine; I sought out your duties. 57 I spoke my portion, O Lord, to keep your commands. 58 I besought your face with my whole heart. Have mercy upon me according to your word. 59 For I considered according to your ways and returned my feet to your testimonies. 60 I was prepared and not troubled to keep your commandments. 61 The measured portions of sinners entwined me, and I did not forget your law. 62 At midnight I awoke to give thanks to you for the judgments of your righteousness. 63 I am a companion of all those who fear you and guard your commandments. 64 All the earth is full of your mercy, O Lord. O Lord, teach me your duties. 65 You made goodness with your servant, O Lord, according to your word. 66 Teach me goodness and instruction and knowledge, because I trusted your commandments. 67 Before I was made low, I erred; on account of this, I have kept your word. 68 You are good, O Lord, in your goodness teach me your duties. 69 The injustice of the arrogant increased upon me. But I, with my whole heart, I will examine your commandments. 70 Their heart was curdled like milk. But I meditated on your law. 71 It was good for me that you brought me low, so that I would learn your duties. 72 The law of your mouth is good for me beyond thousands of gold and silver. 73 Your hands formed me and prepared me. Instruct me, and I will learn your commandments. 74 Those who fear you will see me, and they will be cheerful that I hoped in your words. 75 I knew, O Lord, that with righteousness and truth your judgments brought me low. 76 Surely let your mercy come to comfort me, and your word for your servant. 77 Let your compassions come to me, and I will live, because your law is my meditation. 78 Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they acted unjustly against me. But I will chatter on your commandments. 79 Let those who fear you turn, and those who know your testimonies. 80 Let my heart be blameless in your duties, so that I would never be put to shame. 81 My soul comes to an end for your salvation, and for your word I hoped. 82 My eyes came to an end for your word, saying, “They comforted me.” 83 For I became as a bag in frost. I did not forget your duties. 84 How many are the days of your servant? When will you make judgment for me against those who are persecuting me? 85 Lawless persons described idle tales to me, but not like your law, O Lord. 86 All your commandments are truth; unjustly they persecuted me. Help me![22] 87 They almost put an end to me in the earth. But I did not forsake your commandments. 88 I will have life according to your mercy, and I will keep the testimonies of your mouth. 89 For eternity, O Lord, your word remains in the heavens. 90 Your truth is from generation to generation. You laid down the earth, and it remains. 91 The day remains by your arrangement, for all things are servants of yours. 92 If it were not that your law is my meditation, then I would have been utterly destroyed in my lowliness. 93 For eternity I will never forget your duties, because with them you gave life to me, O Lord. 94 I am yours, O Lord. Save me, for I sought out your duties. 95 But I understood your testimonies. 96 I saw an end of all perfection, but your commandment is very broad. 97 How I loved your law, O Lord. The whole day it is my meditation. 98 Beyond my enemies you instructed me in your commands, for it is for me for eternity. 99 Beyond all those who teach me I understood, because your testimonies are my meditation. 100 Beyond elders I understood, because I sought out your commandments. 101 From every evil way I withheld my feet, so that I keep your words. 102 From your regions I did not turn away, because you gave laws to me. 103 How sweet to my throat are your words, more than honey and honeycomb for my mouth. 104 From your commandments I understood; on account of this I hated every way of injustice, because you gave laws to me. 105 Your law is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths. 106 I have sworn, and I stand, to keep the judgments of your righteousness. 107 I was made low very much, O Lord. Make me alive according to your word. 108 Bless the voluntary offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me your judgments. 109 My soul is in your hands through everything, and I did not forget your law. 110 Sinners placed a trap for me, and from your commandments I was not led astray. 111 I inherited your testimonies for eternity, because they are a great joy of my heart. 112 I inclined my heart to make your duties an exchange for eternity always. 113 I hated the lawless, and I loved your law. 114 You are my helper and my protector. In your people I placed my hopes. 115 Turn away from me, you who act wickedly, and I will examine the commandments of my God. 116 Help me according to your word, and give life to me, and do not disgrace me from my expectation. 117 Help me, and I will be saved, and I will meditate on your duties through everything. 118 You scorned all those who turned away from your duties, because their imagination is unrighteous. 119 I considered those deviating as all sinners of the earth. On account of this I loved your testimonies through everything. 120 Nail my flesh from fear of you, for I feared from your judgments. 121 I did justice and righteousness. Do not deliver me to those who do me wrong. 122 Receive your servant for the good. Let not the arrogant slander me. 123 My eyes came to an end for your salvation and for the word of your righteousness. 124 Act with your servant according to your word, and teach me according to your duties. 125 I am your servant; instruct me, and I will know your testimonies. 126 It is time for the Lord to act; they turned away from your law. 127 On account of this I loved your commandments more than gold and gems. 128 On account of this I set myself upright to all your commandments. I hated every unrighteous way. 129 Your testimonies are wonderful. On account of this, my soul examined them. 130 The revelation of your words will give light and instruct infants. 131 I opened my mouth and excited a spirit, because I was desiring your commandments. 132 Look upon me, and have mercy upon me, according to the justice of those who love your name. 133 Make my steps straight according to your word, and do not let any lawlessness have dominion over me. 134 Redeem me from the false accusation of people, and I will keep your commandments. 135 Show forth your face upon your servant, and teach me your duties. 136 My eyes were traversed with streams of waters, since they did not keep your law. 137 You are righteous, O Lord, and your judgment is righteous. 138 You commanded your testimonies, righteousness and truth very much. 139 The zeal of your house melted me, because my enemies forgot your commands. 140 Your word has burned very much, and your servant loved it. 141 I am young and scorned. I did not forget your duties. 142 Your righteousness is righteousness for eternity, and your word is truth. 143 Affliction and tribulation found me. Your commandments are a care of mine. 144 Your testimonies are righteousness for eternity. Instruct me, and give life to me. 145 I cried aloud with my whole heart. Hear me, O Lord, and I will seek your duties. 146 I cried aloud to you; save me, and I will keep your testimonies. 147 They came near me in the dead of night, and I cried aloud. I hoped in your words. 148 My eyes came near to you at dawn to meditate on your words. 149 Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your word. According to your justice make me alive. 150 Those who pursued me approached in lawlessness. But from your law they were removed. 151 You are near, O Lord, and all your ways are truth. 152 From the beginning I knew from your testimonies that you laid them down for eternity. 153 See my lowliness, and deliver me, because I did not forget your law. 154 Judge my judgment, and redeem me; on account of your word make me alive. 155 Salvation is far away from sinners, because they did not seek out your duties. 156 Your compassions are very many, O Lord. According to your judgments make me alive. 157 Many are those who persecute me and afflict me. From your testimonies I did not turn away. 158 I saw those who break covenant, and I pined away, because they did not keep your words. 159 See how I have loved your commandments, O Lord. With your mercy make me alive. 160 The beginning of your words is truth, and for eternity are all the judgments of your righteousness. 161 Rulers persecuted me for nothing, and from your words my heart feared. 162 I will rejoice exceedingly in your words, as the one who finds many spoils. 163 I hated and abhorred injustice, but I loved your law. 164 Seven times during the day I praised you for the judgments of your righteousness. 165 Great peace exists for those who love your law, and for them there is no stumbling block. 166 I was expecting your salvation, O Lord, and I loved your commandments. 167 And my soul guarded your testimonies, and it loved them very much. 168 I kept your commandments and your testimonies, because all my ways are before you. 169 Let my prayer come now near before you, O Lord. O Lord, according to your word instruct me. 170 May my request enter before you. According to your word rescue me. 171 May my lips overflow with a hymn whenever you teach me your duties. 172 May my tongue speak your word, because all your commandments are righteousness. 173 May your hand save, because I chose your commandments. 174 I have trusted your salvation, O Lord, and your law is a care of mine. 175 My soul will live, and it will praise you, and your judgments will help me. 176 I was led astray like a slain sheep. Give life to your servant, because I did not forget your commandments.

119When I was afflicted, I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me. 2 O Lord, rescue my soul from unrighteous lips and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What should be given to you, and what should be added to you, O deceitful tongue? 4 The arrows of the strong are sharpened with the charcoal from the desert. 5 Woe is me, that my sojourning was prolonged. I dwelt with the tents of Kedar. 6 My soul lived as a foreigner greatly; with those who hated peace, 7 I was peaceful. Whenever I was speaking to them, they were fighting against me without cause.

120I lifted my eyes to the mountains. From where will my help come? 2 My help is from the Lord, who made the heavens and the earth. 3 Do not give your foot to surging; nor will the one who guards you sleep. 4 Look, the one who guards Israel will neither slumber nor awaken from sleep. 5 The Lord will guard you. The Lord is your shelter at your right hand. 6 By day the sun will not burn you, neither the moon during the night. 7 The Lord will guard you from all evil; may he keep watch over your soul. 8 The Lord will guard your entering in and your going out from now and until eternity.

121I was cheerful at those who said to me, “We will go up into the house of the Lord.” 2 Our feet were established in the courts, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is restored as a city whose company is together. 4 For there the tribes of the Lord went up, as a testimony to Israel, to confess the name of the Lord. 5 For there thrones sat for judgment, thrones for the house of David, 6 and prosperity for those who love you. Ask indeed the things for peace for Jerusalem. 7 May indeed your peace be in your power and prosperity in your citadels. 8 On account of my brothers and my neighbors, I was speaking, “Peace to you.” 9 On account of the house of the Lord, our God, I sought out for you.

122To you I lifted up my eyes, to the one who dwells in the heavens. 2 Look, as the eyes of servants are for the hands of their lords, as the eyes of a female servant are for the hands of her mistress, thus are our eyes toward the Lord, our God, until he pities us. 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, because we have been greatly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul has been greatly filled with it. Reproach be with those who are prospering, and contempt be with the arrogant.

123If it was not that the Lord was with us —let Israel say so now 2 if it was not that the Lord was with us, when people rose up against us, 3 then they would have devoured us alive, when their wrath was angered against us; 4 then the water would have thrown us into the sea; our soul would have passed through the torrent; 5 then our soul would have passed through the overwhelming water. 6 Blessed is the Lord who did not give us for prey for their teeth. 7 Our soul was rescued like a sparrow from the trap of the ones going hunting. The trap was crushed, but we were rescued. 8 Our rescue is in the name of the Lord, who made the heavens and the earth.

124Those who trust in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion. The one who inhabits Jerusalem will not be shaken for eternity. 2 Mountains are in a circle around it, and the Lord is in a circle around his people, from now and until eternity. 3 For he will not spare the rod of sinners for the portion of the righteous ones, that the righteous ones would never stretch out their hands in lawlessness. 4 Do good, O Lord, to the ones who are good, and to the ones upright in heart. 5 But those who turn away to the knots the Lord will lead astray, with those who work lawlessness. Peace be upon Israel!

125When the Lord returned to the captive Zion, we became as those comforted. 2 At that time our mouth was filled with joy, and our tongue with great joy. At that time they will say among the nations, “The Lord was magnified to act with them.” 3 The Lord was magnified to act with us. We became cheerful. 4 Return our captivity, O Lord, like the torrents in the south. 5 Those who sow in tears will reap with great joy. 6 Going, indeed they were going and weeping, removing their seed. But coming, they will come with great joy, lifting up their handfuls.

126If the Lord has not built a house, those who build it grow weary in futility. If the Lord does not guard a city, the one who keeps watch lies awake in futility. 2 It is futile for you to rise early, to awaken after those who eat the bread of pain are seated, when he gives slumber to his beloved. 3 Look, the inheritance of the Lord are children, the wages of the fruit of her womb. 4 Just like arrows in the hand of the strong, thus are the children of the scattered. 5 Blessed is he who will fulfill his desire from them. He will not be disgraced when they speak to their enemies in the gate.

127Blessed are all those who fear the Lord, those who walk in his ways. 2 You will eat the fruit of your labors. Blessed are you, and it will be well for you. 3 Your wife is like a prospering vine on the sides of your house. Your children are like newly planted olive trees in a circle around your table. 4 Look, thus will he be blessed, the person who fears the Lord. 5 May the Lord bless you from Zion, and may you see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of your life. 6 And may you see the children of your children. Peace be upon Israel!

128“Many times they fought against me from my youth” —let Israel say now 2 “Many times they fought against me from my youth. Indeed, they will not overpower me. 3 Upon my back the sinners devised plans. They prolonged their lawlessness.” 4 The righteous Lord cut off the necks of sinners. 5 Let all those who hate Zion be dishonored, and let them be turned backwards. 6 Let them be like the grass of rooftops that was dried up before it was drawn out, 7 with which the one who reaps does not fill his hand, and the one who gathers the handfuls does not fill his chest; 8 and those who pass by have not said, “Blessings of the Lord be upon us; we will bless you in the name of the Lord.”

129From the deeps I cried aloud to you, O Lord. 2 O Lord, hearken to my voice. Let your ears be giving heed to the voice of my entreaty. 3 If you should closely watch transgressions, O Lord, O Lord, who should endure it? 4 For from you is the atonement. Because of your name 5 I awaited, O Lord. My soul waited for his law. 6 My soul hoped upon the Lord from early watch until night. 7 For mercy is from the Lord, and great redemption is from him. 8 And he will redeem Israel from all their acts of lawlessness.

130O Lord, my heart was not lifted up, nor were my eyes raised up, nor did I go in greatness, nor in wondrous things beyond me. 2 Surely I was not humbled, and I lifted my soul high, as the one weaned from its mother, until you will repay on behalf of my soul. 3 Let Israel hope upon the Lord from now and until eternity.

131O Lord, remember David and all his humility. 2 When he swore to the Lord, he prayed to the God of Jacob, 3 “If I will enter into the tent of my house, if I will go up on the bed of my covering, 4 if I will give slumber to my eyes and drowsiness to my eyelashes and rest to my temples, 5 until when I will find a place to the Lord, a tent to the God of Jacob.” 6 Look, we heard it in Ephrathah; we found it in the thicket of the wood. 7 “I will enter into his tents; we will worship at the place where his feet stood.” 8 Rise up, O Lord, into your rest, you and the ark of your holy place. 9 Your priests put on righteousness, and your holy ones will rejoice exceedingly. 10 Because of David, your servant, do not turn back the face of your anointed one. 11 The Lord swore to David truthfulness, and he will never reject it, “From the fruit of your belly I will establish upon your throne; 12 if your sons will keep my covenant and my testimonies, these things that I will teach them, and their sons will sit upon your throne until eternity.” 13 For the Lord chose Zion. He selected it for a dwelling for himself, 14 “This is my place of repose for eternity of eternity; here I will dwell, because I chose it. 15 I will surely bless its widow; its poor I will satisfy with food. 16 Its priests I will clothe with salvation, and its holy ones will rejoice exceedingly with great joy. 17 There I will cause to spring up a horn for David; I will prepare a lamp for your anointed one. 18 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon him my holiness will flourish.”

132Look, surely what is good or what is pleasant, that brothers dwell together? 2 It is as perfume upon the head, which goes down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, which goes down upon the collar of his garment. 3 It is like the dew of Hermon, which goes down upon the mountains of Zion, because there the Lord commanded the blessing and life until eternity.

133Look, surely bless the Lord, all servants of the Lord, who stand in the courts of the house of our God. 2 In the nights lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord. 3 The Lord will bless you from Zion, the one who made the heavens and the earth.

134Praise the name of the Lord! Praise, O servants, the Lord, 2 you who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. 3 Praise the Lord because the Lord is good. Sing psalms to his name because it is good, 4 because the Lord chose Jacob for himself, Israel for his treasure. 5 For know that great is the Lord, and our Lord beyond all gods. 6 All things, however much he wanted, the Lord made in the heavens and on earth, in the seas and in the depths. 7 Leading out clouds from the end of the earth, he made lightning strikes into rain, the one who leads out winds from his treasures. 8 He who struck the firstborn of Egypt, from human to animal. 9 He sent forth signs and wonders in the middle of you, O Egypt, with Pharaoh and with all his servants. 10 He struck many nations and killed strong kings, 11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan. 12 And he gave the land as their inheritance, an inheritance to Israel, his servant. 13 O Lord, your name is for eternity. O Lord, your remembrance is from generation to generation. 14 The Lord has compassion on his people, and he will be comforted in his servants. 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, works of the hands of humans. 16 They have a mouth and do not speak; they have eyes and will not see. 17 They have ears and will not give ear, for there is no wind in their mouth. 18 May all those who make them become like them, and all those who are trusting in them. 19 O house of Israel, bless the Lord! O house of Aaron, bless the Lord! 20 O house of Levi, bless the Lord! You who fear the Lord, bless the Lord! 21 Blessed is the Lord from Zion, the one who inhabits Jerusalem.

135bGive thanks to the Lord because he is kind, because his mercy is for eternity. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods, because his mercy is for eternity. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, because his mercy is for eternity; 4 to the one who alone makes great wondrous things, because his mercy is for eternity; 5 to the one who made the heavens with understanding, because his mercy is for eternity; 6 to the one who made firm the earth upon the water, because his mercy is for eternity; 7 to the one who alone made great lights, because his mercy is for eternity; 8 the sun for authority over the day, because his mercy is for eternity; 9 the moon and the stars for authority over the night, because his mercy is for eternity; 10 to the one who struck Egypt with their firstborn, because his mercy is for eternity; 11 and the one who led out Israel from the middle of them, because his mercy is for eternity; 12 with a strong hand and with a high arm, because his mercy is for eternity; 13 to the one who divided the Red Sea into parts, because his mercy is for eternity; 14 and the one who carried Israel in the middle of it, because his mercy is for eternity; 15 and to the one who scattered Pharaoh and his strength into the Red Sea, because his mercy is for eternity; 16 to the one who carried his people in the desert, because his mercy is for eternity; 17 to the one who struck great kings, because his mercy is for eternity; 18 and to the one who killed strong kings, because his mercy is for eternity; 19 Sihon, king of the Amorites, because his mercy is for eternity; 20 and Og, king of Bashan, because his mercy is for eternity; 21 and to the one who gave the land as their inheritance, because his mercy is for eternity; 22 an inheritance to Israel, his servant, because his mercy is for eternity;a 24 and he delivered us from the hand of our enemies, because his mercy is for eternity; 25 the one who gives food to all flesh, because his mercy is for eternity. 26 Give thanks to the Lord of the heavens, because his mercy is for eternity!

136At the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept while we remembered Zion. 2 Upon the willows in the middle of it we hung up our musical instruments. 3 For there those who took us as prisoners asked us for words of songs, and those who led us away, “Sing to us from the songs of Zion.” 4 How should we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be forgotten! 6 May my tongue be glued to my throat if I do not remember you, if I do not prefer Jerusalem, in the beginning of my cheer. 7 Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Empty out, empty out, until the foundation is in it!” 8 O daughter of Babylon, you miserable one! Blessed is the one who repays to you your recompense, which you supplied to us. 9 Blessed is the one who will seize your infants and dash them to the ground against the rock. I Will Give Thanks to You, O Lord

137I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart, because you heard the words of my mouth; and before angels I will sing psalms to you. 2 I will worship at your holy temple, and I will give thanks to your name, for your mercy and your truthfulness, because you magnified your holy one above every name. 3 In whichever day I call on you, quickly hear me. You will treat me with care in my soul with great power. 4 Let all the kings of the earth give thanks to you, O Lord, because they heard all the words of your mouth. 5 And let them sing with the ways of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord is great! 6 For the Lord is high, and he has taken notice of the low, and he knows the haughty from afar. 7 If I should walk in the middle of tribulation, you will give life to me. Against the anger of my enemies you stretched out my hands, and your right hand saved me. 8 O Lord, you will repay concerning me. O Lord, your mercy is until eternity. O Lord, do not neglect the works of your hands.

138O Lord, you put me to the test, and you knew me. 2 You knew my sitting and my waking. You understood all my thoughts from afar. 3 My path and my course you tracked out. And all my ways you foresaw. 4 For there is no unrighteous word on my tongue. Look, Lord, you know all, 5 the final affairs and the ancient things. You formed me and set your hand upon me. 6 Your knowledge was magnified from me. I was strengthened; never would I be strong enough for it. 7 Where should I go from your spirit, and where would I flee from your face? 8 If I should go up to the heavens, you are there. If I should go down to Hades, you are present. 9 If I take up my wings to fly straight and dwell unto the ends of the sea, 10 indeed, even there your hand will guide me, and your right hand will hold me. 11 And I said, “Therefore, darkness will trample upon me, and night is illumination in my luxury.” 12 As the darkness of it, thus also the light of it. 13 For you created my mind, O Lord; you helped me from the womb of my mother. 14 I will give thanks to you, because you were marvelously, awesomely made. Wondrous things are your works, and my soul knows it very much. 15 My bones were not hidden from you, which you made in secret, and my actual being was in the lower parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed shape, and in your document all will be written, for days they will be formed, and none in them. 17 But for me your friends were exceedingly honored, O God; their rulers were exceedingly strengthened. 18 I will count them, and they will be multiplied beyond the sand. I was awakened, and still I am with you. 19 If you slay sinners, O God, O men of bloodshed, turn away from me. 20 For you will speak to their thought; they will take your cities in pointlessness. 21 Did I not hate those who are hating you, O Lord? And I was pining over your enemies. 22 With a complete hatred I was hating them; they were as enemies to me. 23 Scrutinize me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; 24 and see if you see transgressions in me, and lead me in the eternal way.

139FOR THE END, BY DAVID, A PSALM. 2 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil person; from the unjust man rescue me. 3 Those who plotted injustice in their heart, the whole day they were organizing wars. 4 They sharpened their tongue like a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Musical interlude 5 Guard me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner. Deliver me from unrighteous people, those who plotted to overthrow my steps. 6 The arrogant ones hid a trap for me, and they stretched out measuring lines of a snare for my feet along the path. They set up a stumbling block for me. Musical interlude 7 I said to the Lord, “You are my God; give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my entreaty.” 8 O Lord, Lord, you are the power of my salvation. You overshadowed my head in the day of war. 9 Do not deliver me, O Lord, from my desire. They devised with the sinner against me. Do not forsake me, lest they be lifted up high. Musical interlude 10 The head of their encirclement, the work of their lips will cover them up. 11 Coals of fire will fall on them; upon the earth you will overthrow them. With misery never ever will they endure. 12 An unrighteous man will hunt evil things unto destruction. 13 I knew that the Lord will make justice for the needy and judgment for the poor. 14 But the righteous ones will confess your name, and the upright ones will inhabit with your face.

140O Lord, to you I cried out. Give ear to me. Pay attention to the voice of my entreaty when I cry out to you. 2 Let my prayer be directed as a burnt sacrifice before you, a rising of my hands as an evening sacrifice. 3 O Lord, set a guard for my mouth and a door of fortification around my lips. 4 Do not turn my heart to words of wickedness, to allege pretexts in sins, with people working lawlessness, and never ever will I be joined with their chosen ones. 5 The righteous one will train me with mercy, and he will reprove me. But do not anoint my head with the olive oil of the sinner, for again and again my prayer is against their pleasures. 6 Their strong ones were devoured next to a rock. They will hear my words because they were able. 7 As a thick piece of earth is broken up upon the earth, our bones were scattered along Hades. 8 For to you, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes. In you I placed my hope. Do not remove my soul. 9 Guard me from the trap that they contrived for me and from the stumbling block of those who work lawlessness. 10 Sinners will fall in his own net. I am alone wherever I go.

141FOR UNDERSTANDING, BY DAVID, WHEN HE WAS IN THE CAVE, A PRAYER. 2 With my voice I cried out to the Lord. With my voice I besought the Lord. 3 I poured out before him my entreaty. I will report my affliction before him. 4 When my spirit came to an end from me, you also knew my paths. In this way in which I was going, they hid a trap for me. 5 I was looking to the right hand, and I was seeing that there was no one who knew me. Escape passed away from me, and there is no one who seeks out my soul. 6 To you, O Lord, I cried out, and I said, “You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living.” 7 Pay attention to my entreaty, because I was made low very much. Rescue me from those who are persecuting me, because they were strengthened beyond me. 8 Lead my soul out from prison, so that I could give thanks to your name, O Lord. The righteous ones wait for me until when you will give recompense to me.

142O Lord, hearken to my prayer. Give ear to my entreaty with your truthfulness. Hear me in your righteousness. 2 And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because every living soul will not be vindicated before you.[23] 3 He lowered my life to the earth. He set me in darkness like the dead of eternity. 4 And my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled in me. 5 I remembered ancient days, and I meditated on all your works; on the deeds of your hands I was meditating. 6 I spread out my hands to you. My soul was like dry land to you. Musical interlude 7 Quickly give ear to me, O Lord. My spirit came to an end. Do not turn back your face from me, and I will be like those who go down to the pit. 8 Make me hear of your mercy in the morning, because in you I placed my hope. Make known to me, O Lord, the way in which I will walk, because to you I lifted up my soul. 9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, because to you I fled for refuge. 10 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your holy spirit will guide me in the straight way. 11 On account of your name, O Lord, you will give life to me. With your righteousness you will lead my soul out of affliction. 12 And in your mercy you will utterly destroy my enemies, and you will destroy all those who afflict my soul, because I am your servant.

143Blessed is the Lord, my God, who teaches my hands for war, arranging my fingers for battle. 2 My mercy and my refuge, my helper and my deliverer, my protector; and in him I placed my hope, the one who places my people under me. 3 O Lord, what is a person that you knew him? Or a son of a person that you should consider him? 4 A person is like pointlessness. His days pass by as a shadow. 5 O Lord, bend your heavens and come down to touch the mountains, and they will smoke. 6 Hurl lightning, and you will scatter them. Send forth your arrows, and you will confound them. 7 Send forth your hand from the heights. Deliver me, and rescue me from many waters, from the hand of foreign children, 8 whose mouth spoke pointlessness, and their right hand was a right hand of injustice. 9 O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a ten-stringed harp I will sing psalms to you,[24] 10 to the one who gives his salvation to the kings, to the one who redeems David, his servant, from the evil sword. 11 Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of foreign children, whose mouth spoke pointlessness, and their right hand was a right hand of injustice, 12 whose sons are like newly planted fruit that ripen in their youth. Their daughters are beautified in their faces, decked all around as like a temple. 13 Their treasuries are full, overflowing from this to that. Their sheep are bearing more than one, multiplying when they go out. 14 Their cattle are thick. There is no downfall of fence nor going out nor crying in their dwellings. 15 They blessed the people to whom are these things. Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

144I lift you up, O my God, my King, and I will bless your name for eternity and into the eternity of the eternity. 2 Each day I will bless you, and I will praise your name. 3 Great is the Lord and very praiseworthy, and of his majesty there is no end. 4 Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will announce your power. 5 They will speak about the magnificence of the glory of your holiness, and they will describe your wondrous things. 6 And they will speak of the power of your awesomeness, and your majesty, I will describe it, and I will speak about your dominion. 7 They will overflow with the memory of the magnitude of your kindness, and they will rejoice exceedingly in your righteousness. 8 Compassionate and merciful is the Lord, longsuffering and very merciful. 9 The Lord is good to those who wait, and his compassions are over all his works. 10 Let all your works give thanks to you, O Lord, and let your holy ones bless you. 11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and they will speak of your power, 12 to make known to the sons of humans your power and the glory of the magnificence of your kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is the kingdom over all the eternities, and your dominion in every generation and generation. 14 Faithful is the Lord in his words, and holy in all his works. The Lord supports all those who are falling down and sets up again all those who have been broken down. 15 The eyes of all are hoping in you, and you give their food in season. 16 You open your hands and satisfy every living being with goodwill. 17 Righteous is the Lord in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 18 The Lord is near to all those who invoke him, to all those who invoke him in truthfulness. 19 He will do the will of those who fear him, and he will hear their prayers, and he will save them. 20 The Lord guards all those who love him, and all the sinners he will utterly destroy. 21 My mouth will speak praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name for eternity and into the eternity of the eternity.

145My soul praises the Lord. 2 I will praise the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God as long as I exist. 3 Do not trust in rulers and in the sons of humans in whom there is no salvation. 4 His spirit will come out, and he will return to his earth; in that day all their thoughts will perish. 5 Blessed is the person whose helper is the God of Jacob. His hope is in the Lord, his God, 6 the one who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, the one who keeps truthfulness for eternity, 7 the one who brings justice to those who are wronged, giving food to those who are hungry. The Lord unbinds those having been bound fast. 8 The Lord sets up again those having been broken down. The Lord makes wise the blind. The Lord loves the righteous ones.[25] 9 The Lord guards the immigrants. The orphaned and the widow he will take in. And he will destroy the way of sinners. 10 The Lord will rule for eternity, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.

146cPraise the Lord, because psalmody is good. Let sweet praise be to our God. 2 The Lord is building Jerusalem, and the dispersion of Israel he will gather together, 3 the one who heals those who have been broken in heart and binds up their wounds, 4 the one who counts the multitude of the stars and who calls names to all of them. 5 Great is our Lord, and great is his strength, and there is no numbering of his understanding. 6 The Lord takes up the humble, but lowers sinners to the earth. 7 Begin to the Lord with thanksgiving; sing psalms to our God with the lyre, 8 to the one who clothes the heavens with clouds, to the one who prepares for the earth rain, to the one who causes grass to spring up in the mountains, and tender grass for the toil of humanity, 9 and to the one who gives to the livestock their food, and to the chicks of the ravens who invoke him. 10 He will not delight in the power of the horse, nor in the legs of a man is he well pleased. 11 The Lord is well pleased with those who fear him and with all those who are hoping in his mercy.

147O Jerusalem, praise the Lord; O Zion, praise your God! 2 For he strengthened the bars of your gates; he blessed your children in you. 3 The one who places your borders with peace, and who satisfies you with the richness of wheat, 4 the one who sends away his word to the earth, with swiftness his word will run, 5 who gives snow like wool, who sprinkles fog like ashes, 6 who casts his ice like morsels, against the face of his cold who will endure? 7 He will send his word, and it will melt them. His wind will blow, and waters will flow. 8 He is sending his word to Jacob, his duties and judgments to Israel. 9 He did not do thus to every nation, and his judgments he did not make visible to them.

148Praise the Lord from the heavens! Praise him in the highest places! 2 Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his powers! 3 Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all the stars and the light! 4 Praise him, the heavens of the heavens, and the water above the heavens! 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord, because he said, and they were; he commanded, and they were created. 6 He established them for eternity and into the eternity of eternity. He set an ordinance, and it will not pass away. 7 Praise the Lord from the earth, you dragons and all the deep waters, 8 fire, hail, snow, ice, wind of a storm, the things doing his word, 9 the mountains and all high places, fruit-bearing trees and all cedars, 10 the wild beasts and all the livestock, reptiles and winged birds, 11 kings of the earth and all peoples, rulers and all judges of the earth, 12 youth and virgins, old woman with the young. 13 Let them praise the name of the Lord, because his name only was lifted up; his thanksgiving is in the earth and the heavens. 14 And he will raise up the horn of his people, to the children of Israel, to the people near to him.

149Sing to the Lord a new song. His praise is in the assembly of holy ones. 2 Let Israel be cheerful in the one who made him, and let the children of Zion rejoice exceedingly in their king. 3 Let them praise his name in dance; with tambourine and harp let them sing psalms to him, 4 because the Lord is well pleased with his people, and he will raise up the humble in salvation. 5 Holy ones will boast in glory, and they will rejoice exceedingly in their beds, 6 the heights of God in their throat and double-edged swords in their hands, 7 to enact vengeance among the nations, reproof among the peoples, 8 to bind their kings in fetters and those held in esteem among them in iron handcuffs, 9 to enact among them written judgment. This is glory to all his holy ones.

150Praise God among his holy ones! Praise him among the strength of his might. 2 Praise him in his powers! Praise him according to the magnitude of his majesty! 3 Praise him in the sound of a trumpet! Praise him in harp and lyre! 4 Praise him in tambourine and dance! Praise him in strings and musical instrument! 5 Praise him in pleasing cymbals! Praise him in loud cymbals! 6 Let all that has breath praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

151I was small among my brothers and the youngest one in the house of my father. I was shepherding the sheep of my father. 2 My hands made an organ; my fingers prepared a harp. 3 And who will report to my Lord? The Lord himself, it is he who will hearken. 4 He dispatched his messenger and raised me from the sheep of my father. He anointed me with the oil of his anointing. 5 My brothers were handsome and big, but the Lord was not well pleased with them. 6 I went out to a meeting against the foreigner, and he imprecated curses upon me with his idols. 7 But I, after drawing the sword from him, beheaded him and took away the reproach from the children of Israel.