1I cried to the Lord when I was overwhelmed, to God when sinners attacked. 2 Suddenly I heard cries of the battle right in front of me. He will hear me because I am righteous. 3 I reminded myself that I was indeed righteous: hadn't I prospered and given birth to many children? 4 Their influence spread over the whole earth and their reputation extended to the far reaches ofthe earth. 5 They soared as high as the stars: they never expected they would ever fall.[1] 6 Their wealth made them too proud, and they did not acknowledge God. 7 Their sins were in secret; I knew nothing about them. 8 Their crimes were worse than the Gentiles before them; they repeatedly profaned the Lord's Sanctuary.
2When the sinner contemptuously used his battering-ram to smash down the fortified walls, you did not interfere. 2 Gentiles who worship other gods went up to your altar; they brazenly trampled around with their sandals on. 3 For their part, the people of Jerusalem desecrated the Lord's sanctuary. Their crimes profaned the offerings to God. 4 Because of all this he said: 'Get these things far away from me! They are repugnant!' 5 His beautiful and glorious sanctuary was despised before God, it was completely dishonored. 6 The sons and daughters (of Jerusalem) were held prisoner in terrible conditions: a seal on their necks, a Gentile mark. 7 He dealt with them according to their sins; he abandoned them to the hands of their oppressors. 8 For he turned away and showed them no mercy - young and old and their children - all alike because they all sinned alike, for they would not listen. 9 The heavens were appalled, and the earth loathed them. Because no one had ever acted as they. 10 The world will know all your judgments; they are just, O God. 11 The Gentiles maligned the men of Jerusalem, because of the prostitutes among her. Everyone who passed by went in to them in broad daylight. 12 Even die Gentiles ridiculed such crimes, compared to how they themselves acted. They made a public display of their evil deeds. 13 And you have judged the women of Jerusalem poluted, for they defiled themselves with sexual promiscuity. 14 Thinking about these things makes me sick to my stomach.[2] 15 I will defend your justice, O God, with integrity, because your judgments are just, O God. 16 because you have repaid sinners according to their deeds and according to their exceedingly wicked sins. 17 You uncovered their sins that your judgment might be evident; you wiped out their memory from the earth. 18 God is an impartial judge, and is not impressed by appearances. 19 The Gentiles humiliated Jerusalem when she was trampled down; He dragged her beauty from her once magnificent throne. 20 She was wrapped in sackclotj instead of beautiful clothes; a rope was around her head instead of a wreath. 21 He snatched the crown of glory that God had put on her. Her beauty lies in disgrace; it was flung down upon the earth. 22 And I saw all this and pleaded in the Lord's presence: I said: 'Make it stop. Lord! By bringing in the Gentiles you have laid your hand heavily upon Jerusalem.' 23 They have humiliated them, and their frenzied passion did not let up, nor did their angry violence. And they will be destroyed unless you, O Lord, angrily denounce them, 24 because diey did not act out of zeal, but out of an obsession, venting their thieving anger against us. 25 Don't delay, O God, in retaliating against their leaders by disgracing the dragon's arrogance. 26 I did not have long to wait until God showed me his arrogance. Stabbed on the sand dunes of Egypt, he was more despised than anything in the whole world. 27 His body was violently carried over the waves and there was no one to bury him, because God contempmously despised him. 28 He did not realize that he was merely mortal, and he didn't think about the future. 29 He said: 'I will be lord of the whole world:' he failed to recognize that it is God who is great, who is mighty in his great strength. 30 He himself is king over the heavens, he who judges kings and rulers. 31 He is the one who raises me up into glory, and who brings down the arrogant to sleep, to their dishonorable destruction forever, because they did not know him. 32 And now, you rulers of the earth, see the judgment of the Lord, because he is a great and righteous king, judging what is under heaven. 33 Praise God, those of you who know enough to fear the Lord, because his mercy will be with those who have good reason to fear him. 34 for he will separate the righteous from the simier, because he will always retaliate against sinners according to their deeds. 35 He will have mercy on the righteous, keeping them from the humiliation of sinners, and he will retaliate against the sinner for what he has done to the righteous. 36 The Lord is kind to those who persistently appeal to him; he treats his devout in accordance with his mercy, to keep them constantly before him in strength. 37 Praised be the Lord forever in the eyes of his servants.
3Why am I sleeping, and not praising the Lord? Strum a new song to God who is worthy to be praised.[3] 2 Keep on strumming and keep awake for he is awake. For a good psalm to God comes from a good heart. 3 The Lord is on the mind of the righteous through everything by recognizing and proving that the Lord's judgments are right. 4 The righteous will not be ashamed to be taught by the Lord, their desire is to be always in the Lord's presence. 5 The righteous stumble and still prove the Lord is right; if they fall, they expect God to help them; they look to the source of their salvation. 6 The confidence of the righteous comes from God their savior. Repeated sin is not found in the home of the righteous. 7 The righteous thoroughly examine their homes to remove their unintentional offences.[4] 8 They atone for sins of ignorance by fasting and humility and the Lord will cleanse every devout person and their household.[5] 9 The sinners stumble and curse their life, the day of their birth and their mother's labor pain. 10 They sin repeatedly in their life: They fall, and are seriously hurt, they will never get up again. 11 The destruction of sinners is forever, and they will not be remembered when God looks after the righteous. 12 This is the fate of sinners forever; but those who fear the Lord shall rise up to eternal life, and their life shall be in the Lord's light and it shall never end.[6]
4Why are you sitting in the Holy Sanhedrin, you foul person? When your heart is far from the Lord, provoking the God of Israel with your rotten behavior? 2 Verbose and flamboyant more than anyone, harshly condemning defendants in court. 3 His hand is among the first to be lifted against the defendant, as if he were motivated by a virtuous zeal, but he himself is guilty of a whole hoard of sins with no self-control.[7] 4 His eyes are on every woman promiscuously, he lies when making contracts under oath. 5 He sins secredy and at night, as if no one saw him. With his eyes he propositions every woman for illicit affairs. However, he is quick to enter cheerflilly into every house, as if he were innocent. 6 May God snatch away these hypocrites from among his devout; May he live his life in sickness and in poverty. 7 May God unmask the deeds of those hypocrites and expose their deeds with ridicule and derision. 8 And may the devout prove their God's judgment to be right, by the removal of the sinners from the presence of the righteous, even that hypocrite who deceitfully quotes the Torah. 9 And then their eyes are on another person's peaceful home like a serpent. Their arguments destroy with distorted words. 10 He speaks deceitfully, so that he may carry out his evil desires. He does not give up until he succeeds in scattering them as orphans. 11 He devastates a home with his twisted desire. He deceives with words, for he thinks; 'There is no one who sees or judges.' 12 He gorges himself with these kinds of crooked acts at one place, and then his eyes focus on another house, to destroy it with seductive words. 13 With all this his appetite, like Death, is not satisfied. 14 Lord, may his destiny be disgrace. May he go out groaning and come back cursing. 15 Lord, may his life be lived in agony, poverty, and distress; may he have trouble sleeping and difficulty getting up. 16 May he be unable to sleep at night, May he fail disgracefully in everything he does. 17 May he return to his house empty-handed, may his house lack everything with which he would saiisly himself; 18 May his old age be spent alone and childless, until he passes away. 19 Let wild animals tear apart the flesh of the hypocrites, and may the bones of the criminals disgracefully bleach out in the sun.[8] 20 May crows peck out the eyes of these hypocrites, because they disgracefully seized so many people's homes, and greedily evicted them. 21 In all these things they have not remembered God, nor have they feared God in all these things; but they have angered and aggravated God. 22 May he banish them from the earth, because they betrayed these poor souls with their lies. 23 Happy are those who are innocent and fear the Lord. The Lord will rescue them from deceitful and sinful people, and will rescue us from every legal trap. 24 May God banish those arrogantly doing every injustice, because our God is a powerful Lord and a great and just judge. 25 Lord, may your mercy be upon all those who love you.
5O Lord God, I will joyfully praise your name among those who know your equitable judgments. 2 Because you are kind and merciful, the refuge of the destitute. When I cry out in anguish to you, do not ignore me. 3 For if no one can rob a strong man, who can take anything from all you have made, unless you give it away?[9] 4 Because a person and their destiny are on the scales before you; no one can add anything that goes against your decisions, O God. 5 When we are persecuted, we call on you for help and you will not turn away from our prayer, because you are our God. 6 Don't be too demanding of us, lest we sin in desperation. 7 And even if you don't turn us back, we will not keep away, but we will come to you. 8 For if I am hungry, I will cry out to you, O God, and you will give me something. 9 You feed the young birds and the fish, when you send rain to the wilderness that the grass may grow;[10] 10 So to provide pasture in the wilderness; for every living thing; when they are hungry, will turn to you. 11 You feed kings and rulers and their subjects, O God, and who is the hope of the poor and the needy, if not you, O Lord? 12 And you will listen, because who is kind and generous but you, cheering the humble, by reaching out in mercy? 13 Human kindness comes meagerly, and delayed and if it is repeated without grumbling this is remarkable. 14 But your gift is abundantly kind and generous, and those who hope in you will have everything they need. 15 O Lord, your kind mercy extends over all the earth. 16 Happy is the one whom God remembers with only what is necessary. If people are excessively rich, they easily sin. 17 Moderate wealth with righteousness is enough, for this comes with the Lord's blessing: to be satisfied with righteousness. 18 Those who fear the Lord are content with their possessions. May your kindness be upon Israel as you rule. 19 Praised be the glory of the Lord because he himself is our king.
6Happy is the person whose heart is ready to call upon the name of the Lord for help. When they remember the name of the Lord they will be saved. 2 Their ways are directed by the Lord, and the works of their hands are guarded by the Lord their God. 3 Their spirit will not be troubled by nightmares; they will not be frightened when crossing rivers or rough seas. 4 They rise out of sleep and give praise to the name of the Lord, when their hearts are strong, they sing out to the name of their God. 5 They seek the Lord for everyone in their household, and the Lord hears the prayers of all who fear God. 6 The Lord fulfills every request from all those who hope in him. Praised be the Lord who shows mercy to those who truly love him.
7Don't leave us O God, so those who hate us without cause might not attack us. 2 because you have pushed them away, O God. May their feet not trample your holy inheritance. 3 Discipline us as you wish, but don't turn us over to the Gentiles; 4 for if you send Death away, it will be because you, yourself, have told him what to do about us.[11] 5 Because you are kind, and you would not be angry enough to destroy us. 6 While your name lives among us, we will receive mercy; and the Gentiles will not defeat us. 7 Because you are our protector, we will call to you and you will hear us. 8 Because you yourself will have compassion on the family of Israel forever, and will not reject them. 9 But we are forever under your yoke and the whip of your discipline.[12] 10 For your help will direct us at the right time, to show mercy to the house of Jacob for the day when you promised it to them.
8I heard sounds of suffering and battle, the blast of a trumpet sounding slaughter and destruction: 2 the sound of a huge mob, like a violent, raging wind, like a roaring fne storm sweeping down through the wilderness. 3 Then I said to myself: Is this God's judgment? 4 1 heard these sounds in Jerusalem, the holy city, 5 my stomach was sick at what I heard; my knees buckled, my heart was terrified, my bones shook like reeds. 6 I said: 'Are not these people righteous?' 7 I considered God's judgments since the creation of Heaven and Earth, I believed God to be right in his judgments, those from the beginning of time. 8 God exposed their sins to the light of the sun; all the earth recognized the righteous judgments of God. 9 But their offenses were in secret hiding-places, provoking him to anger: son with mother, and father with daughter - they were incestuously involved 10 They all were committing adultery with their neighbor's wives, they made agreements with each other about these things, under oath. 11 They plundered God's sanctuary as if there were no redeeming heir. 12 They trampled the Lord's altar coming straight from every kind of impurity, and with menstrual blood on them they defiled the burnt-offerings as if they were ordinary meat. 13 There was no sin that was not worse than the Gentiles. 14 On account of this God confused their minds; he made them drunk as if with undiluted wine.[13] 15 He brought the one from the end of the earth, the mighty warrior, he declared war against Jerusalem, and against her land.[14] 16 The leaders of the country met him with joy. They said to him, 'Welcome, we have expected you. Come, all of you, enter in peace.' 17 They graded the rough roads for his coming; they opened the gates to Jerusalem, they lined her walls.[15] 18 He entered peacefully, like a father into his sons' house; he secured a foothold. 19 He pulled down her battlements and the wall of Jerusalem, for God led him in unscathed in their confusion. 20 He killed off their leaders and ail the councilmen; he poured out the blood of the people of Jerusalem as if it were so much dirty water. 21 He led off their sons and daughters, those born defiled. They acted according to their defiled ways. 22 just like their ancestors, they defiled Jerusalem and the things consecrated to the name of God. 23 God has been shown to be justified in his decisions among the world's Gentiles, and God's devout are like innocent lambs among them. 24 The Lord is worthy to be praised, who judges the whole earth in his righteousness. 25 See now, O God, you have shown us your righteousness in your judgments. Our own eyes have seen' your judgments, O God. 26 We have vindicated your name, forever honored, because you are a God of justice, judging Israel with discipline. 27 O God, tum your mercy towards us, and be compassionate to us: 28 gather the scattered of Israel with mercy and kindness, because your faithfulness is with us.[16] 29 For we have stiffened our necks, but you are our teacher. 30 Don't neglect us, our God, lest the Gentiles swallow us whole as if there were no deliverer. 31 You have been our God from the beginning, and our hope is in you, O Lord. 32 We distance ourselves, because your judgments are kind towards us. 33 Be pleased with us and with our children forever, O Lord, our Savior; we won't be upset ever again, but you are our teacher. 34 The Lord is worthy to be praised for his judgments by the voice of his devout people. May Israel be blessed by the Lord forever.
9When Israel was led away into exile in a foreign country, when they abandoned the Lord who had redeemed them, they were expelled from the inheritance that the Lord gave to them. 2 Israel was scattered in every Gentile nation, as God had spoken: that you may be proven right in this matter, O God; in your justice and in our lawlessness; because you are a righteous judge over all the peoples of the earth. 3 For none that do evil can be hidden from your knowledge. Lord, you know of the righteous deeds of your devout; where will a person hide from your knowledge, O God? 4 We are free to choose and do what we will to do right or wrong in how we live our lives; in your justice you watch mortals closely. 5 Those who do what is right save up life for themselves with the Lord, and those doing what is wrong cause their own lives to be destroyed; for the Lord's righteous judgments come down on man and household.[17] 6 To whom will you be kind, O God, except to those who appeal to the Lord? He will cleanse from sin the person who both confesses and publically acknowledges it. For all of these things we are ashamed, and we are embarrassed. 7 And whose sins will he forgive, except those who have sinned? You will bless the righteous, and not accuse them for their sin. Because your kindness is upon those that sin, when they repent. 8 Now, then, you are God and we are the people whom you have loved: Look, and be compassionate, O God of Israel, because we are yours, and don't take away your mercy from us. lest they set upon us. 9 Because you have chosen the descendants of Abraham over all other nations; you put your name upon us, O Lord, and that will not cease for ever. 10 You made a covenant with our ancestors about us, and we will place our hope in you, when we turn ourselves towards you. 11 May the Lord's mercy be upon the house of Israel forever and ever.
10Happy is the person whom the Lord remembers with punishment, and who has been restrained from going the wrong way with a whip, to be cleansed from sin so that it will not increase.[18] 2 Those who prepare their backs for the whips will be cleansed, for the Lord is kind to those who endure discipline. 3 For he will set straight the ways of the righteous, and will not lead them astray by discipline, and the mercy of the Lord is upon those who truly love him. 4 The Lord will remember his servants with compassion, for the testimony is in the Torah of the eternal covenant, this testimony of the Lord is foimd in the lives of persons under his watchful care. 5 Our Lord is just and holy in his judgments forever and Israel will joyfully praise the Lord's name, 6 And the devout will celebrate in the assembly of the people, and God will be merciful to the poor to the joy of Israel. 7 because God always is kind and merciful, and the synagogues of Israel will glorify the Lord's name. 8 May the Lord's salvation cover the house of Israel to bring unending joy.
11Sound in Zion the trumpet that summons the holy ones. Announce in Jerusalem the voice of one proclaiming good news: 'God has been merciful to Israel by his watchful care over them.'[19] 2 Stand on a high place, O Jerusalem, and see your children from east to west finally brought together by the Lord.[20] 3 From the north they come with the joy of their God; from far distant islands God brings them together. 4 He flattened high mountains into level ground for them, the hills fled at their coming. 5 The woods shaded them as they passed by; God made every fragrant tree to spring up for them 6 that Israel might pass by in the watchful care of the glory of their God. 7 O Jerusalem, put on your glorious clothes, prepare your holy robes, because God has pronounced blessings on Israel forever and ever.[21] 8 May the Lord do to Israel and Jerusalem the things that he has spoken; may the Lord lift up Israel by his glorious name. 9 May the mercy of the Lord be upon Israel forevermore.
12O Lord, save my life from the wicked man who twists the law, from twisting and slandering language that speaks lies and deceits. 2 The discourse of this wicked man takes many twists and turns. It is like a fire burning among a people, scorching their beauty. 3 His visit fills homes with lying speech; as a flickering flame has its own attraction to people; he sets homes at war with his slanderous language. 4 May God keep the lips of these criminals from distressing the innocent. May the bones ofthe slanderers be scattered far from those who fear the Lord. May the slanderous tongues be destroyed in flaming fire far from the devout. 5 May the Lord protect the quiet person who hates injustice, and may the Lord guide the person who lives quietly at home. 6 May the salvation of the Lord be upon Israel his child forever and ever. May the sinners be destroyed once and for all from before the Lord. May the Lord's devout inherit the Lord's promises.
13The right hand of the Lord covered me, the right hand of the Lord spared us: 2 the arm of the Lord saved us from a piercing sword, from famine and death at the hands of sinners. 3 Wild animals attacked them viciously, they ripped at their flesh with their teeth and with their jaws they crushed their bones: 4 And from all of these the Lord delivered us. 5 The ungodly were terrified by their mistakes, lest they be swept along with the sinners: 6 because the destruction of the sinner is terrible but none of all these things will touch the righteous. 7 Because the discipline of the righteous for things done in ignorance is not the same as the destruction of the sinners. 8 The righteous are disciplined quietly, so that the sinner might not rejoice over the righteous. 9 Because God will admonish the righteous as a beloved son and his discipline is as for a first-born. 10 Because the Lord will spare his devout, and he will wipe away their mistakes with discipline. 11 For the life of the righteous goes on forever, but sinners will be taken away to destruction and no memory of them will ever be found again. 12 May the Lord's mercy be upon the devout, and may his mercy be to those who fear him.
14The Lord is faithful to those who truly love him, to those awaiting his discipline, 2 to those living in the righteousness of his commands, in the Torah that he commanded us for our lives. 3 The Lord's devout will live by it forever; his devout are the Lord's Paradise, the trees of life.[22] 4 Their plant is rooted forever; they will not be pulled up as long as heaven shall last.[23] 5 because God has reserved Israel for himself 6 But it is not so with sinners and criminals, who love the time enjoying their sins. 7 Their enjoyment is brief and quickly decays, and they do not remember God. 8 Because he always knows how people live, and he knows the secrets of the heart before they happen.[24] 9 Therefore there is reserved for them the world of the dead, darkness and destruction, and they will not be remembered on the day of mercy for the righteous, 10 but a happy life is reserved for the Lord's devout.
15When I was oppressed, I called upon the Lord's name, for I expected help from Jacob's God, and I was saved: because you, O God, are the help and refuge of the poor. 2 For why does anyone have strength, O God, except to honestly confess you? And why is a person gifted, except to worship your name? 3 A new psalm sung from a happy heart; the fruit of the lips matched with a well-tuned tongue; the first harvest of the lips from a holy and righteous heart. 4 Those doing these things will never be distressed by evil; the flame of fire and anger against the unrighteous will not touch them,[25] 5 whenever it goes out from the Lord's presence to destroy every confidence of sinners. 6 Because God's mark of salvation is on the righteous. 7 Famine, sword, and death shall be far from the righteous, for they will flee from the devout and pestilence from the living. 8 But they will pursue sinners and overtake them, and those acting lawlessly will not escape the Lord's judgment. 9 they will be seized as if by mercenaries, for the sign of destruction is right between their eyes. 10 For destruction and darkness is reserved for sinners and their lawlessness will pursue them even down into hell. 11 What is reserved for them will not be found in their children. For sin will turn the homes of sinners into deserts.[26] 12 On the day of the Lord's judgment sinners will perish forever, when God examines the earth at his judgment: 13 but then, those fearing the Lord will find mercy, and they will live on in their God's mercy, but sinners will perish for all time.
16When I was drowsy, I slowly drifted down, away from the Lord as I fell asleep, far from God. 2 For a moment my life was drained, I was almost dead. I was standing with the sinner, very near to the gates of hell. 3 So I would have been carried away from the Lord God of Israel. If the Lord had not taken hold of me with his eternal care. 4 In his vigilance he jabbed me as with a horse spur. My savior and protector rescued me again. 5 I will confess you, O God, because you took, hold of me and saved me and I wasn't included with sinners for destruction. 6 Don't take your mercy from me, O God, nor your memory from my mind until death. 7 Restrain me, O God, from intentional sin, and from every wicked woman who traps the foolish. 8 And do not let me be deceived either by a lawless woman's beauty, nor by anyone under the control of useless sin. 9 Guide my actions before you. Guard carefully my steps through remembering you. 10 May I speak the truth; Put fierce rage and anger far from me. 11 Put grumbling and discouragement in trouble far from me, if ever I sin while under your discipline intended to bring me back. 12 Support me with approval and happiness, when you strengthen me. Whatever you will give is good enough for me. 13 Because if ever you fail to give us strength who can endure discipline when they are poor? 14 When people are tested because of their mortality, you are examining them in their flesh, and in the burden of poverty. 15 The righteous survive all these things, by the Lord's mercy.
17O Lord, you yourself are our king for ever and ever: because in you, O God, we will take pride 2 How long is a person's allotted lifetime on earth? As long as he lives, he can hope. 3 But we hope in God our savior because the strength and mercy of our God will last forever, and the kingdom of our God will last forever in judgment over the Gentiles. 4 It was you, O Lord, who chose David as king over Israel, and you promised him that his descendants would continue forever, that you would not abandon his royal house. 5 But sinners revolted against us because of our sins: they attacked us and drove us out. Those to whom you promised nothing, they violently stole from us. 6 In their pride they flamboyantly set up their own royal house. Their arrogant substimtion desolated David's throne, and they did not glorify your honorable name. 7 But you, O God, will throw them down, and root up their descendants from the earth, for there will rise up against them a man alien to our race.[27] 8 You will repay them according to their sins O God. It will happen to them according to their deeds. 9 God showed them no mercy. He hunted down their descendants and did not let even one of them escape. 10 The Lord is faithfiil in all his judgments that he does on earth. 11 The lawless one devastated our land, so that it was uninhabitable; he eliminated yung and old and their children together. 12 In his magnificent wrath God sent them away to the west, and he did not spare even the officials of the country from ridicule. 13 As the enemy was a foreigner, and his heart was foreign to our God, so he acted arrogantly. 14 So in Jerusalem he engaged in all the practices that Gentiles do for their gods in their great cities. 15 And the people of tje covenant living among the many nations adopted these things. No one among them in Jerusalem acted with mercy or truth. 16 Those who loved the synagogues of the devout escaped from them as sparrows fly from their nest. 17 They wandered in the wilderness to save their lives from evil. The life of even one who was saved from them was precious in the eyes of the exiles. 18 They were scattered over the whole earth by the lawless ones. The heavens withheld rain from falhng on the earth. 19 Springs were stopped. From the perennial sources far underground to those in the high mountains. For there was no one among them who practiced righteousness or justice. 20 From their leader to the commonest of the people they committed every kind of sin: the king broke the law, the judges disobeyed, the people sinned. 21 Look, O Lord, and raise up for them their king, a son of David, to rule over your servant Israel in the time that you know, O God.[28] 22 Undergird him with the strength to destroy the unrighteous rulers, to purge Jerusalem from the Gentiles who trample her down to destruction;[29] 23 in wisdom and in righteousness to drive out the sinners from the inheritance, to smash the arrogance of sinners like a potter's jar, 24 to demolish all their resources with an iron rod; to destroy the lawbreaking Gentiles with the word of his mouth;[30] 25 to scatter the Gentiles from his presence at his threat; to condemn sinners by their own consciences. 26 He will gather a holy people whom he will lead in righteousness; and he will judge the tribes of the people who have been made holy by the Lord his God.[31] 27 He will not tolerate unrighteousness to dwell among them again, and no person who knows evil will live with them. For he will know them, because they are all children of their God. 28 He will distribute them upon the land according to their tribes. The stranger and the foreigner will no longer live with them.[32] 29 He will judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his justice. 30 He will have Gentile peoples serving him under his yoke, and he will glorify the Lord publically in the whole world. He will pronounce Jerusalem clean, consecrating it as it was in the beginning.[33] 31 He will have nations come from the ends of the earth to see his glory, giving back her scattered children and to see the glory of the Lord with which God has glorified her. 32 He will be a righteous king over them, taught by God, there will be no unrighteousness among them during his reign, because everyone will be holy, and their king will be the Lord Messiah. 33 For he will not depend on cavalry and archers; Nor will he need to finance a war; He will not place his hope on making war. 34 The Lord himself is his king, the hope of the one who hopes in God. He will be merciful to all the Gentiles that fearfully stand before him. 35 He will strike the earth with the word of his mouth forever; He will bless the Lord's people with wisdom and happiness. 36 And he himself will be free from sin, in order to rule such a great people. He will expose officials and drive out sinners by the strength of his word.[34] 37 And he will not weaken during his reign, relying upon his God, because God will make him powerful by a holy spirit; and wise in intelligent counsel, with strength and righteousness.[35] 38 And the blessing of the Lord will be with him in strength, and it will not weaken. 39 His hope will be in the Lord. Then who can be stronger than he? 40 He will be mighty in his actions and strong in the fear of God, faithfully and righteously shepherding the Lord's sheep, he will not let any of them stumble in their pasture.[36] 41 He will lead them all impartially, and there will be no arrogance among them that any of them should be oppressed. 42 This is the magnificence of the king of Israel that God acknowledged, to raise him over the House of Israel to discipline it. 43 His words will be purer than the finest gold. In the assemblies he will judge the tribes of a sanctified people. His words will be as the words of the holy ones, among sanctified peoples.[37] 44 Happy are th e people born in those days who will see the good fortune of Israel that God wall cause in the gathering of the tribes. 45 May God hasten his mercy to Israel; May he shield us from the contamination of defiled enemies; 46 The Lord himself is our king forevermore.
18O Lord, your mercy is upon the works of your hands forever, your kindness to Israel with a lavish gift. 2 Your eyes are watching over them and none of them will be lacking. Your ears listen to the hopeful prayer of the poor. 3 Your compassionate judgements are over the whole world, and your love is for the descendants of Abraham, an Israelite. 4 Your discipline for us is as for a firstborn son, an only child, to dissuade the perceptive person from unintentional sins.[38] 5 May God cleanse Israel for the blessed day of mercy, the appointed day for the appearance of his Messiah. 6 Happy are those living in those days, to see the good things of the Lord, that he will do for the coming generation. 7 That will be under the rod of discipline of the Lord's Messiah, in the fear of his God, in the wisdom of the spirit, and in righteousness and strength. 8 to direct people to righteous actions, in the fear of God, to confirm them all in the presence of the Lord. 9 This will be a good generation living in the fear of God, in the days of mercy. 10 Our God is great and glorious living in the highest heavens, who arranged the sun and moon into orbits to mark the times of the hours from day to day. And they have not deviated from their course that he appointed for them.[39] 11 Their course each day is in the fear of God, from the day God created them and until forever. 12 And they have not wandered from the day he created them, from ancient generations. They have not veered off their course except when God directed them by the command of his servants.[40]