The Book of Psalm
1 Happy the man who has not gone by wrong-doers’ policy nor stood in sinners’ road nor sat in cynics’ session,
2 But finds pleasure in Jehovah’s instructions, and his instructions he studies day and night.
3 And he will be like a tree planted by channels of water that bears its fruit in season, and its leaves never fade, and in all he does he will succeed.
4 Not so wrong-doers; not so, but like chaff that a wind blows about.
5 Therefore wrong-doers will not stand in judgment nor sinners in a congregation of honest men,
6 For Jehovah knows honest men’s courses, but wrong-doers’ courses will be lost.
2 Why have nations forgathered and peoples made empty propositions?
2 Kings of earth took their stand and potentates concerted a program against Jehovah and against his Anointed,
3 “Let us snap their tether
and tear off their ropes.”
4 He who sits in heaven will laugh;
the Lord will deride them.
5 Then he will speak to them in his anger
and throw them into consternation by his heat,
6 “But I, I have invested my king
on my sacred mountain Sion.”
7 I will tell the story of Jehovah’s ordinance:
He said to me “You are my son,
I myself have today given you birth.
8 Ask me and I will make nations your estate
and the ends of earth your holding.
9 You shall break them with iron truncheon,
smash them like crockery.”
10 And now, kings, be canny;
take your lesson to heart, judges of earth;
11 Worship Jehovah in fear
and kiss his feet with quaking,
12 For fear he should be angry and you perish right away,
because his anger takes fire easily.
Happy are all that take refuge in him.
(A psalm of David’s when he was in flight before his son Absalom.)
3 Jehovah, how thick come my foes!
Many are standing up against me,
2 Many are saying of my soul
“There is no help for him in his God.” (Selah)
3 But you, Jehovah, are a shield before me,
my glory and the uplifter of my head.
4 Aloud to Jehovah I call,
and he has answered me from his sacred mountain. (Selah)
5 I have lain down and gone to sleep
and waked up, because Jehovah supports me.
6 I will not be afraid of thousands upon thousands of people
who on all sides have beset me.
7 Stand up, Jehovah, save me, my God;
For you have struck all my enemies on the jaw,
broken the teeth of malefactors.
8 Salvation is a thing of Jehovah’s;
your blessing be on your people! [Selah]
(Of the Director; with string accompaniment. A psalm of David’s.)
4 When I call answer me, my God of the righteous cause:
in distress you have relieved me; be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
2 Gentlemen, how long—heavy-witted ones, what for—
will you love emptiness, seek after a lie? (Selah)
3 But know that Jehovah has distinguished a man of his friendship;
Jehovah will hear when I call to him.
4 Tremble and do not sin;
tell yourselves as you lie in your beds, and be quiet. (Selah)
5 Offer rightful sacrifices
and trust to Jehovah.
6 Many are saying “Who will let us see anything good?”
Lift up over us the light of your face, Jehovah.
7 You have put gladness in our hearts
surpassing the time their grain and grape-juice are plentiful.
8 In peace I will lie down and go right to sleep, because you solely, Jehovah, cause me to live in security.
(Of the Director; to the woodwind. A psalm of David’s.)
5 Give ear to my say, Jehovah!
take in my moan!
2 Listen to the sound of my clamor, my King and God,
for it is to you I pray.
3 Jehovah, in the morning you shall hear my voice,
in the morning I will address you and be on the lookout.
4 For you are not a crime-loving deity,
wickedness will not make its home with you,
5 Wild men will not take their stand under your eyes,
you hate all that commit villainy,
6 You will destroy those who speak lies;
Jehovah detests a man of bloodshed and fraud.
7 But I by the abundance of your friendship will enter your house,
will do reverence toward your holy temple in your fear.
8 Jehovah, guide me in your righteousness on account of my ill-wishers,
lay your way out straight before me.
9 For there is nothing solid in their mouths; their inward thought is catastrophe;
their throats are open graves; they keep their tongues slippery.
10 Hold them to the penalty, God; let them come to a fall by their plans;
for the multiplicity of their crimes banish them, because they have disobeyed you;
11 And let all that take refuge in you be glad
And carol forever, you sheltering them, and let those who love your name exult in you,
12 Because you, Jehovah, bless an honest man,
envelop him with goodwill like a shield.
(Of the Director; with string accompaniment; bass voices. A psalm of David’s.)
6 Jehovah, do not correct me in your anger
nor chastise me in your ire;
2 Do me a kindness, Jehovah, because I am forlorn;
make me well, Jehovah, because my bones are flinching.
3 My soul is flinching utterly;
Jehovah, how long will you?
4 Come back, Jehovah, rescue my soul;
save me for your friendship’s sake.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of you,
in the world below who will give you thanks?
7 My eyes have been wearing away for vexation,
aging by all that distress me.
8 Away from me, all you that commit villainy,
for Jehovah has heard the sound of my weeping,
9 Jehovah has heard my petition,
Jehovah will receive my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be in great shame and consternation,
will turn back and be in sudden shame.
(A dithyramb of David’s which he sang to Jehovah about the affair of Cush a Benjamite.)
7 Jehovah, my God, in you I take refuge:
save me from all my persecutors and deliver me,
2 For fear he should make prey of my life like a lion,
bringing down, and nobody rescuing.
3 Jehovah, my God, if I did this,
if there is foul play in my hands,
4 If I injured one who was at peace with me
and wantonly harassed one who was my foe,
5 Let an enemy chase after my soul and run it down
and trample my life to the earth,
and my glory be lodged in the dust. (Selah)
6 Rise in your anger, Jehovah; up with you against my foemen’s wrath, and bestir yourself to reach me.
A judgment you have ordained;
7 let a congregation of gods surround you,
and above them sit aloft.
8 Jehovah is arbiter of peoples:
give judgment for me, Jehovah,
in accordance with my fair dealing and the integrity I cherish;
9 Let wrong-doers’ evil disappear and right-doing be made regular—
the Tester of Heads and Hearts is a right-doing God!
10 My shield is carried by God,
saver of men of upright heart.
11 God is an honest man’s judge
and the Deity is hostile to schemers.
12 If he does not turn back, he sharpens his sword,
has strung his bow and bent it,
13 And got ready instruments of death,
makes his arrows fireballs.
14 Here he is in labor with villainy,
has become pregnant with mischief and will give birth to lies.
15 He has dug and sunk a pitfall
and tumbled into the trap he was making.
16 His mischief will come back on his own head
and his outrage come down on his own pate.
17 I thank Jehovah as befits his right-doing
and sing a psalm to the name of Jehovah Most High.
(Of the Director; to the Gittith. A psalm of David’s.)
8 Jehovah, our Lord, how grand is your name throughout the earth, you whose majesty reaches above the sky,
2 Who out of the mouths of children at play and babies at the breast have laid a foundation of might
on account of those who are foes to you, to put a stop to enemy and avenger!
3 When I see your sky, the work of your fingers,
moon and stars that you have set,
4 What is man that you should remember him,
any of humankind that you should attend to him?
5 And you have made him little short of God,
with state and glory you crown him,
6 And have given him rule over the works of your hands,
have placed everything under his feet,
7 Sheep and cattle all,
beasts of the wilds too;
8 Bird of air and fish of sea,
those that traverse fluid paths.
9 Jehovah our Lord, how grand is your name throughout the earth!
(Of the Director; falsetto voices. Of Ben’s. A psalm of David’s.)
9 I will give thanks to Jehovah with all my heart;
I will tell the story of all your wonders;
2 I will be glad and exult in you,
I will sing psalms to your name, Most High,
3 For my enemies’ turning to go backward,
stumbling and perishing before you;
4 For you have given me justice and my rights,
you sit enthroned as a fair judge.
5 You rebuke nations, you destroy a wrong-doer,
you blot out their name forever and evermore.
6 The enemy are all gone, perpetual wastes,
and cities you have uprooted; their memory has perished,
7 But Jehovah will stand fast forever,
he has planted his throne for judgment,
8 And he will judge the world honestly,
give fair verdicts for many a folk,
9 So that Jehovah may be a fastness for the downtrodden man,
a fastness for hard times,
10 And those who know your name may have confidence in you, because you have never abandoned those who resort to you.
11 Sing psalms to Jehovah, him who is seated on Sion;
tell among the peoples his deeds;
12 For a prosecutor of bloodshed remembers them;
he never forgets the crying of unhappy men.
13 Be gracious to me, Jehovah; see my unhappy state because of those who hate me,
you who uplift me from the gates of death,
14 So that I may tell all the story of your praises,
exult in your salvation at the gates of the daughter of Sion.
15 Nations have sunk in a pitfall they had made;
in a net that they hid their own feet are caught.
16 Jehovah has won recognition, has done justice;
a wrong-doer is snared in the work of his own hands.
(Higgaion. Selah)
17 Wrong-doers shall go back to the world below;
all nations are forgetful of God.
18 For a needy man will not be perpetually forgotten,
humble men’s hopes will not be lost forevermore.
19 Up, Jehovah; let man not be high and mighty;
let nations bring their causes before you for judgment.
20 Put them in fear, Jehovah;
let nations know they are human beings. (Selah)
10 Why do you stand aloof, Jehovah,
ignore hard times?
2 Pridefully a wrong-doer chases a poor wretch—
they shall be caught in the designs they have thought up.
3 For a wrong-doer praises, a grasping man blesses,
on the basis of his own heart’s desire.
4 A wrong-doer loftily insults Jehovah,
does not look out for his anger;
All his calculations are that there is no God.
5 His courses are persistent at every time;
Your judgments are too exalted to come within his view;
all his foemen he pooh-poohs.
6 He says to himself “I shall be unshaken,
for generation upon generation I shall be firm,
to disaster I shall never succumb.”
7 His mouth is full of fraud and extortion;
under his tongue are mischief and villainy.
8 He sits in village ambushes,
kills innocent men under cover.
His eyes are in wait for a wretched man.
9 He lies in wait under cover like a lion in its thicket,
Lies in wait to catch a poor fellow,
catches a poor fellow by drawing his net:
10 He beats down, brings low;
wretches have fallen by his force.
11 He says to himself “Deity has forgotten,
has veiled his face, does not see forevermore.”
12 Up, Jehovah! Deity, lift your hand!
do not forget miserable men!
13 On what ground has a wrong-doer been contemptuous of God,
said to himself you would not look into it?
14 You do see, because you look at mischief
and offense, to put it into your hands;
To you the orphan wretch leaves his cause;
you have been a helper.
15 Break the arm of a wrong-doer and rascal;
you look for his criminal work, it is not to be found.
16 Jehovah is king of ages on ages,
heathen nations perish out of his country.
17 Humble men’s desire you have heard,
Jehovah, the address of their hearts;
18 You sharpen your ear to judge orphan and downtrodden;
Never again let a man out of the earth be arrogant.
(Of the Director. Of David’s.)
11 In Jehovah I take refuge: how is it you say to my soul
“Flit mountainward like a sparrow”?
2 For here have the wicked strung their bow,
Set their arrow on the string,
in gloom to shoot at right-minded men.
3 When the foundations are torn up
what does an honest man do?
4 Jehovah is in his holy temple;
Jehovah has his throne in the sky;
His eyes view,
his glances test, the sons of men.
5 Jehovah tests honest man and rascal,
and his nature hates a lover of outrage.
6 He will rain on rascals burning charcoal and sulfur,
and scorching wind is the cup poured out for them.
7 For Jehovah is honest, loves honest doings;
upright men shall behold his face.
(Of the Director; bass voices; a psalm of David’s.)
12 Save, Jehovah, because godly men have disappeared,
because all is over with reliability among mankind.
2 They talk make-believes to each other,
talk with slippery lips and double heart.
3 Jehovah will exterminate slippery lips,
tongues that make great propositions,
4 Men that say “With our tongues we shall do bravely;
we have our lips with us, who is sovereign over us?”
5 For violence to men in want, for needy men’s groaning,
now I will stand up, says Jehovah,
will set in salvation who pants for that.
7 You, Jehovah, will guard them,
will keep them for this generation and forever.
8 Wrong-doers walk about on all sides
when shabbiness stands high for mankind.
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s.)
13 How long, Jehovah, will you perpetually forget?
how long will you veil your face from me?
2 How long shall I house anxieties in my soul,
have sorrow in my heart through the day?
How long shall my enemies stand high over me?
3 Look at it, answer me, Jehovah, my God;
give light to my eyes, that I may not sleep the sleep of death,
4 That my enemies may not say “I was too much for him,”
my foes jubilate because I stagger,
5 when I have put my confidence in your friendship;
Let my heart jubilate in your salvation,
6 let me sing to Jehovah because he has done me a good turn.
(Of the Director; of David’s.)
14 A rascal has said to himself
“There is no God.”
They behave viciously, abominably;
there is nobody that does what is good.
2 Jehovah looked from the heavens upon mankind
to see if there was a canny man,
one that looked to God:
3 The whole lot had drawn off together, had degenerated,
there was nobody that did what was good, not a single one.
4 Do all who perpetrate villainy not know?
those who eat up my people eat bread, never call on Jehovah,—
5 There they are seized with terror,
because God breaks up an ungodly man’s plan;
6 You shall put them to shame,
because Jehovah has repudiated them.
7 O for Israel’s salvation coming from Sion!
When Jehovah comes back to his people
Jacob will jubilate, Israel make merry.
(A psalm of David’s.)
15 Jehovah, who will find a home in your tent,
who reside on your sacred mountain?
2 One who walks conscientiously and does right
and speaks truth in his heart.
3 He has not talked scandal, nor done an injury to his fellow,
nor taken part in jeering at his neighbor.
4 He has no use for an immoral man,
but those who fear Jehovah he honors.
He swears to do a bad thing and does not substitute anything else;
5 he does not put out his money on interest
Nor take a bribe against an innocent man.
One who does these things will be unshaken forever.
(A mictam of David’s.)
16 Protect me, Jehovah, because I have taken refuge in you;
2 I have said to Jehovah my Lord “You are my good,
3 Counting out all holy ones that are on earth,
grand ones that I have no fancy for.”
4 They get themselves many griefs;
they hurry to get another god.
I will not pour their libations of blood
nor take their names on my lips.
5 Jehovah, you have apportioned my dish and my cup;
you guide the falling of my lot.
6 Lines have fallen in pleasant places for me;
Yes, and my estate has grown finer on my hands.
7 I will bless Jehovah, who has advised me;
nights too my bosom instructs me.
8 I keep Jehovah always before me;
because he is at my right hand I shall be unshaken.
9 So my heart is glad and my soul jubilant;
my flesh too rests assured,
10 Because you will not leave my soul to the realm of death,
will not give up the man of your friendship to see dissolution.
11 You will send me along paths of life;
in your company there are joys in plenty,
pleasant things are in your right hand perpetually.
(A prayer of David’s.)
17 Hear a just cause, Jehovah, listen to my appeal,
give ear to my prayer not made with cheating lips.
2 From before you let judgment issue on my behalf;
let your eyes take cognizance of equity.
3 You have tested me, examined me at night,
assayed me; you will not find viciousness of mine;
My mouth shall not pass over
5 Steady my steps in your roads;
let me not lose my footing.
6 I call to you, because you will answer me, God:
bend your ear to me, hear my say.
7 Do acts of special friendship,
you who by your right hand save from adversaries men who take refuge in you.
8 Guard me like the apple of your eye,
screening me in the shadow of your wings,
9 From criminals who have assaulted me,
my enemies who greedily surround me.
10 Their heart is tallow, their chest is blubber;
they talk with a swagger.
11 They eye us, they surround us now,
they fix their eyes on the country.
12 What he is like is a lion eager to make a kill,
a two-year-old lion sitting in a covert.
13 Up, Jehovah, meet him face to face;
put him down; preserve my life,
14 Your sword preserve it from a ruffian, your hand from men, Jehovah,
from men whose part in life is earthly,
Whose stomach you fill with your stores; they have all the sons they want,
lay down their surplus for their youngsters.
15 As for me, by integrity I shall gaze on your face;
at waking I shall look at your form as much as I please.
(Of the Director; of Jehovah’s servant David, who addressed to Jehovah the words of this song on the day when Jehovah had delivered him out of the hands of all his enemies and of Saul. Said he,)
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2 Jehovah is my cliff and fastness, my preserver;
my God is my rock that I take refuge in, my shield and victorious horn,
3 My citadel and refuge, my savior saving me from outrage.
I proclaim Jehovah a God to be praised, and am saved from my enemies.
4 Breakers of death have enveloped me, torrents of bale overwhelm me,
5 the cords of the world below have gone round me, death’s snares approached me,—
6 In my distress I call on Jehovah, and to my God I cry,
and he has heard my voice out of his palace, and my cry sounded in his ears.
9 And he bent the sky and came down
with thick air under his feet,
10 And mounted a cherub and flew,
sped on the wings of the wind,
11 Made darkness his screen around him,
his bower a clump of water, a cloud in the heavens;
12 coals of fire caught from his presence;
13 Jehovah thundered out of the skies,
the Lord above uttered his voice,
14 And sent his arrows and scattered them,
flashed lightning and threw them into confusion,
15 And the chasms of the sea came in sight,
the foundations of the world were uncovered,
At your rebuke, Jehovah,
at a breath from your nostrils.
16 He has sent from on high and taken me,
drawn me out of deep waters,
17 Delivered me from my enemy strong,
from my haters when they were too much for me—
18 They advanced on me in my day of calamity,
but Jehovah was a stay to me,
19 And brought me out where I had room,
rescuing me because he held me dear.
20 Jehovah gives me requital suitable to my honesty,
return suitable to the cleanness of my hands,
21 Because I have kept Jehovah’s ways
and not gone into wickedness from my God,
22 Because all his laws are present to my mind
and his usages I do not set aside,
23 And I have been straightforward toward him
and guarded against my offending nature;
24 And Jehovah has given me return suitable to my honesty,
to the cleanness of my hands under his eyes.
25 With a godly man you deal friendlily;
with a straightforward man, straightforwardly;
26 With a clean man, cleanly;
and a dodger you outmaneuver,
27 And downtrodden people you save,
and lofty eyes you bring down.
28 For you are my lamp, Jehovah,
and my God lights up my darkness;
29 For by you I break a fence,
by my God I leap a wall.
30 The Deity’s path is straightforward;
Jehovah’s say is sterling;
he is a shield to all who take refuge in him.
31 For who is God besides Jehovah?
and who is a rock except our God?
32 The Deity it is that girds me with stoutness
and makes my path straightforward,
33 Makes my feet like a wild doe’s
and brings me to stand on heights,
34 Trains my hands for the battle
till my arms break a bow of bronze.
35 And you have given me the shield of your aid,
and your care makes me great;
36 You make my stride bold
and my ankles do not turn.
37 I pursue my enemies and overtake them,
and do not turn back till I have finished them.
38 I finish them, I batter them so that they do not rise,
they fall under my feet.
39 And you have girded me with stoutness for the battle,
you lay my adversaries low under me,
40 And give me my enemies’ backs;
my haters I annihilate.
41 They cry and there is nobody to save them,
cry to Jehovah and he does not answer them,
42 And I rub them fine like dust on the ground,
like clay in the streets I beat them to powder.
43 And you have preserved me out of my people’s conflicts,
guarded me for a head of nations;
a people that I had not known shall serve me;
44 Foreigners cringe to me,
upon hearsay they are at my orders;
45 Foreigners break up,
are frightened out of their coverts.
46 Living is Jehovah, and blessed my Rock,
and lofty my God of salvation,
47 The Deity who grants me vengeances
and brings peoples down under me,
48 My Preserver from my enemies;
you uplift me above my adversaries,
deliver me from the man of outrage.
49 Therefore I thank you, Jehovah, among the nations,
and sing psalms to your name:
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s.)
19 The skies tell the tale of the Deity’s glory,
and the firmament announces the work of his hands,
2 Day pouring out utterance to day
and night demonstrating knowledge to night
3 With no utterance, no language;
their voice is unheard.
4 Throughout the earth their lines are drawn
and their words come out at the end of the world.
He has made a tent for the sun in them,
5 and it comes out like a bridegroom out of his bower,
Rejoicing as an athlete rejoices in running a distance;
6 its start is from the edge of the sky
And its round covers the edges of it,
and nothing is screened from its heat.
7 Jehovah’s instructions are unerring,
life-restoring;
Jehovah’s lessons are trustworthy,
enlightening simpletons;
8 Jehovah’s mandates are acceptable,
gladdening hearts;
Jehovah’s commandment is honest,
brightening eyes.
10 They that are more enjoyable than gold,
than red gold in abundance,
And sweeter than honey
and drippings of the comb.
11 By them, too, your servant takes warning;
from attention to them come great returns.
12 Missteps who can keep track of?
Hold me clear of unnoticed things!
13 From high-handed ways too keep me back,
let them not rule me;
Then I shall be all right,
innocent of great crime.
14 May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be acceptable
before you, Jehovah, my Rock and my Friend in need!
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s.)
20 Jehovah answer you on a day of crisis,
the name of Israel’s God set you out of reach of harm,
2 Send you help from sacred ground
and from Sion give you support,
3 Remember all your oblations
and make much of your burnt-offering, (Selah)
4 Give you what you have at heart
and bring fulfillment to all your purposes.
5 We will shout over your victory
and fly our colors in the name of our God;
Jehovah give fulfillment to all your requests.
6 Now I know that Jehovah gives victory to his anointed;
he will answer him from his hallowed heavens
with the mighty saving acts of his right hand.
7 Chariots these and ponies those,
and we the name of our God Jehovah commemorate.
8 They have stooped and fallen,
but we are up and keep our feet.
9 Jehovah, make the king victorious
and answer us on the day when we call.
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s.)
21 In your might, Jehovah, a king will be glad,
in the victory you give how overjoyed he will be!
2 You have given him what his heart desired
and not refused what his lips requested; (Selah)
3 For you confront him with the best of blessings,
set on his head a crown of red gold.
4 For life he asked you; you gave it to him,
length of days, ever and evermore.
5 Great is his glory by the victory you give;
majesty and splendor you impart to him.
6 For you will make him a name of blessing forevermore;
you will delight him with rejoicings in your presence.
7 For the king puts his confidence in Jehovah,
and by the friendship of the Lord in high he will stand unshaken.
8 Your hand shall light on all your enemies,
your right hand on those who hate you;
9 You will make them like a baking-crock full of fire at the time of your presence;
Jehovah in his anger will engulf them, fire will consume them;
10 You will destroy their line out of earth
and their blood out of mankind,
11 Because they pointed mischief at you,
contrived a design they could not carry through.
12 For you will make them turn their backs,
you will aim your bow at their faces.
13 Rise high, Jehovah, in your might!
we will sing your exploits and make music of them.
(Of the Director; to “The Morning Doe”; a psalm of David’s.)
22 My God, my God, why have you left me?
far from my Salvation are the words of my roaring!
2 My God, I call by day and you do not answer,
by night and have no response.
3 And you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel!
4 It was in you our fathers put their confidence,
put their confidence and you brought them through.
5 To you they cried, and came off safe;
in you they put their confidence and were not disappointed.
6 But I am a worm, not a man,
a thing flouted by men, despised by people.
7 All who see me make fun of me,
curl their lips, swing their heads:
8 “He relied on Jehovah, let him bring him through,
let him deliver him because he likes him.”
9 When it was you that made me come out of my mother’s body,
made me fearless as I lay on her breast,
10 On whom I was thrown from birth,
who have been my God since I was in my mother’s body,
11 Do not be far from me, for it is a hard pinch; come near,
for there is nobody to give help.
12 Many steers surround me,
bulls of Bashan encircle me,
13 Rapacious roaring lions
face me with wide-open mouths,
15 My strength is dried out like a chip of crockery,
My tongue sticks to my jaws,
and you set me on the clay of death.
17 I can count all my bones!
They look on and gloat over me,
18 They divide my garments among them
and toss lots for my clothing.
19 But, Jehovah, do not hold aloof!
my upholder, make haste for my help!
20 Deliver my life from swords,
my dear life from dogs’ paws;
21 Save me from a lion’s mouth,
my wretchedness from ure’s horns.
22 I will recount your fame to my brothers,
in mid-assembly I will praise you.
23 You who fear Jehovah, praise him!
All Jacob’s race, glorify him!
And quail before him, all you race of Israel!
24 For he has not despised nor loathed a wretched man’s wretched state
Nor veiled his face from him,
but listens when he clamors to him.
25 His faithfulness is my praise in a great assembly;
I will pay my vows before those who fear him;
26 Humble men shall eat and have a full meal,
those who invoke Jehovah shall praise him;
blithe be your hearts forevermore!
27 Let all the ends of earth
remember and come back to Jehovah,
And let all clans of nations
do reverence before him;
28 For the kingship is Jehovah’s
and he governs among the nations.
29 Only to him shall all the hale of earth do reverence,
before him all who go down into clay shall bow
And he who does not keep his soul alive.
30 A race shall worship him; it shall be told of for the Lord.
31 A generation shall come and report his right-doing
to a people that is to be born, because he acted.
(A psalm of David’s.)
23 Jehovah is my shepherd;
I shall never have less than I need.
2 He has me lie down in green pastures;
he takes me to resting-places along the water.
3 He puts life back into me;
he leads me on trails that go right, for the sake of his name.
4 Even when I go in a valley of gloom
I will not be afraid of anything bad, because you are with me;
Your club and staff,
they set my mind at rest.
5 You lay a table before me
in my foemen’s presence;
You have lavished oil on my head,
my cup is full of refreshment.
6 I shall have nothing but kindness and friendliness following me all my life,
and I shall stay at Jehovah’s house for long years.
(Of David’s; a psalm.)
24 To Jehovah belong the earth and all it holds,
the world and those who live in it,
2 Because it was he laid its foundations on seas
and seats it firm on streams.
3 Who shall go up on Jehovah’s mountain,
and who stand up in his sacred place?
4 A man of innocent hands and single heart,
one who has never planned a quibble nor sworn a fraudulent oath,
5 Shall obtain a blessing from Jehovah
and vindication from his saving God.
6 This is the generation of those who go to Jehovah,
who look for the face of Jacob’s Deity. (Selah)
(Of David’s.)
25 It is on you that I count, Jehovah;
2 my God, you are my stay.
In you I trust; let me not be disappointed;
let my enemies not be gleeful over me.
3 Nay, never are any of those who hope in you disappointed;
disappointed are those who commit treachery to no purpose.
4 Make your roads known to me, Jehovah,
teach me your paths.
5 Direct me in your faithfulness, and teach me,
because you are the God of my salvation
And in you I hope all day.
6 Remember, Jehovah, your sympathy and friendliness,
because they have been yours from of old.
7 Do not remember the sins of my youth nor my crimes.
Do you remember me in accordance with your friendship,
for your kindness’ sake, Jehovah.
8 Kind and frank is Jehovah;
therefore he will show the way to those that go wrong.
9 He will direct humble men’s course aright
and teach humble men his road.
10 All Jehovah’s paths are friendship and loyalty
to those who keep his covenant and his lessons.
11 For the sake of your name, Jehovah,
forgive my guilt, great as it is.
12 Who is the man that is a fearer of Jehovah?
he will instruct him what way to choose.
13 He shall lodge in comfort,
his posterity shall possess a domain.
14 Those who fear Jehovah are intimate with him
and his covenant is to be made known to them.
15 My eyes are constantly toward Jehovah
because he gets my feet out of nets.
16 Turn toward me and be gracious to me,
because I am lonely and wretched.
17 Relieve my heart’s distresses
and bring me out of my hard straits.
18 See my wretchedness and my difficulties
and pardon all my sins.
19 Confront my enemies, for there are many of them
and they hate me savagely.
20 Preserve my life and deliver me;
let me not be put to shame, because I have taken refuge in you.
21 Let sincerity and principle be my guard;
for my heart is set on you, Jehovah.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his distresses.
(Of David’s.)
26 Do justice for me, Jehovah, because I go sincerely
and put an unfaltering trust in Jehovah.
2 Test me, Jehovah, and try me,
probe my heart and brain,
3 Because I have your friendship before my eyes
and walk by your good faith,
4 I have not taken my seat with disorderly men
and do not go in with underhanded men,
5 I hate a coterie of evil-doers
and will not live with knaves.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence
and go round your altar, Jehovah,
7 To sound the voice of thanksgiving
and tell the story of all your wonders.
8 Jehovah, I love the site of your house,
the place where your glory is tabernacled.
9 Do not sweep away my life with sinners,
with murderers my being,
10 Who have misdeeds in hand
and their fists full of bribes.
11 But I go sincerely;
redeem me, Jehovah, and be gracious to me.
12 My foot is standing on level ground;
in assembled throngs I will bless Jehovah.
(Of David’s.)
27 Jehovah is my light and salvation;
whom should I fear?
Jehovah is my lifesaving citadel;
whom should I dread?
2 When evil-doers came on to eat my flesh,
my foemen, enemies to me, they stumbled and fell.
3 If an army should take the field against me
my heart would not fear;
If a battle comes upon me,
even with that I rest secure.
4 One thing I ask of Jehovah, it I seek,
the staying at Jehovah’s house all my life long
To gaze on Jehovah’s delectable sights
and to examine his temple.
5 For he would shelter me in his pavilion on a day of calamity, would shroud me in the screen of his tent,
would uplift me on a rock.
6 And now my head rises above my enemies all round me,
and in his tent I will offer shouted sacrifices,
I will sing to make music to Jehovah.
7 Hear, Jehovah, my voice;
I call; be gracious to me and answer me.
9 Do not veil your face from me;
do not dismiss your servant’s case in anger.
You were my help;
do not turn me adrift
nor leave me, God of my salvation.
10 For my father and mother have left me,
but Jehovah takes me in.
12 Do not give me over to the passions of my foes,
for there have stood up against me false accusers
and a snorter of outrages.
13 If I did not trust to have the sight of God’s goodness
in the land of the living—
(Of David’s.)
28 To you, Jehovah, I call;
my Rock, do not be deaf to me,
For fear you should keep quiet in my case
and I become such as are those who are down in the Pit;
2 Hear my suppliant voice when I clamor to you,
when I raise my hands toward your holy shrine.
3 Do not rake me up with malefactors,
with those who practice villainy,
That talk peace with their neighbors
but have harm in their hearts.
4 Give them what will match their doings,
the viciousness of their practices;
Such as the work their hands have done give to them,
give them back their own dealings!
5 Because they have no sense of Jehovah’s doings
and of the work his hands have done,
he shall tear them down and not rebuild them.
6 Blessed be Jehovah
because he has heard my suppliant voice.
7 Jehovah is my strength and my song;
my heart relies on him,
And I am helped, and my heart exults,
and with my song I will thank him.
8 Jehovah is might to his people,
and his anointed one’s citadel of salvation is he.
9 Save your people and bless your estate,
and shepherd them and carry them forever.
(A psalm of David’s.)
29 Sons of deity, give to Jehovah,
give to Jehovah glory and might.
2 Give to Jehovah the glory that belongs to his name;
do reverence to Jehovah in stately sacred garb.
3 Jehovah’s voice over the water!
The God of glory is thundering, Jehovah over a great water!
4 Jehovah’s voice in power,
Jehovah’s voice in sublimity!
5 Jehovah’s voice breaking cedars!
and Jehovah has broken the cedars of the Lebanon
6 And made them skip like a calf,
Lebanon and Sirjon like a young ure.
7 Jehovah’s voice striking out flames of fire!
8 Jehovah’s voice terrifies wilderness,
Jehovah terrifies the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 Jehovah’s voice sends deer into birth-throes
and strips woodlands;
and in his temple it all says “Glory!”
10 Jehovah was enthroned at the Deluge,
and Jehovah is enthroned as king forever.
11 Jehovah will give might to his people,
Jehovah will bless his people with peace.
(A psalm, the song for the dedication of the house, of David’s.)
30 I will exalt you, Jehovah, because you have rescued me
and not had my enemies be glad for me.
2 My God Jehovah,
I implored you and you healed me.
3 Jehovah, you have brought up my soul from the world below,
have restored my life from among those who go down to the Pit.
4 Make music for Jehovah, men of his friendship,
and give thanks in holy commemoration of him.
5 For there is a moment in his anger, life by his favor;
sobs come in the evening to lodge, but in the morning there is caroling.
6 And for me, I had thought in my prosperity
“I shall be unshaken forever”;
7 Jehovah, by your favor you had given my mountains solid strength;
you have veiled your face, I am seized with consternation.
8 To you, Jehovah, I call,
and with my Lord I plead:
9 “What gain is to be made by my blood,
by my going down to dissolution?
Will clay give thanks to you,
will it report your faithfulness?”
10 Listen, Jehovah, and be gracious to me;
Jehovah, be helper of mine.
11 You have turned my wailing to dancing for me,
have undone my sackcloth and kilted me with joy,
12 That my soul may make music to you and not be silent;
Jehovah my God, forever I will give thanks to you.
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s.)
31 In you, Jehovah, I take refuge;
forever let me not be disappointed;
in your right-doing bring me safe through.
3 because you are my cliff and fastness
And for the sake of your name you will guide me and lead me,
4 will get me out of nets that they hid for me,
because you are my citadel.
5 To your hands I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, Jehovah, loyal God.
6 You hate those who attend to futile superstitions;
but I rest my confidence in Jehovah.
7 I am gay and glad in your friendship,
that you saw my wretched state,
knew about my soul’s distresses,
8 And did not give me up into an enemy’s hands;
you set my feet to stand in a broad place.
9 Be gracious to me, Jehovah, because I am in distress;
my eyes have been wearing away with vexation,
my soul and my body.
10 For my life passes away in sorrow and my years in moaning,
my strength breaks down in wretchedness and my bones wear away.
11 By all my persecutors I have been a downright butt to my neighbors
and a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street shy away from me.
12 I am gone from memory like a dead man;
I am like a lost basket.
13 For I have heard the gossip of many, terror on every side,
while they concerted their program against me, designing to take my life.
14 But I rest my confidence in you, Jehovah;
I have said “You are my God.”
15 The events of my life are in your hands:
deliver me out of the hands of my enemies and persecutors;
16 Show your servant a shining face;
save me in your friendship.
17 Jehovah, let me not be disappointed, because I have called you;
let wicked men be disappointed, be silenced for the grave.
18 Let falsifying lips grow dumb,
those that make arrogant talk against an honest man
in pride and contempt.
19 How great is your kindness, Jehovah,
which you have kept laid by for those who fear you,
Have put in action before men
for those who take refuge in you!
20 You will screen them in the veil of your face from the grapplings of a man,
embower them in privacy from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be Jehovah, because he specially befriended me in a besieged city,
22 when I thought in my alarm I was cut off from before your eyes;
Yet you did hear my suppliant voice
when I clamored to you.
23 Love Jehovah, all men of his friendship!
Jehovah keeps faithful men safe
and more than pays off one who acts proudly.
24 Courage, and keep a constant heart,
all you who wait for Jehovah.
(Of David’s; meditative.)
32 Happy he who has transgression forgiven,
sin covered up;
2 Happy a man for whom Jehovah does not count guilt
and who has no fraud at heart.
3 When I was silent my bones were wearing out
with my roaring all day,
4 Because by day and by night your hand lay heavy on me,
I was double-baked with summer droughts. [Selah]
5 I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my guilt,
I said “I will avow my offenses to Jehovah,”
and you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)
6 Since this has been, let every man of your friendship pray to you in crisis;
when waters are poured out in highest flood they shall not reach him.
7 You are a screen for me; you will keep me safe from distress;
you will surround me with shouts of preservation. [Selah]
8 I will teach you good sense, and instruct you as to the way you should go;
I will give advice; my eye is on you.
9 Do not be like a senseless pony or mule
whose wildness, that will not come near you, has to be curbed with
bridle and halter.
10 Many are the pains of a wrong-doer,
but him who trusts to Jehovah friendliness will encircle.
11 Be glad and gay, right-doers, in Jehovah,
and shout, you that have straightforward hearts!
33 Sing a carol of Jehovah, right-doers;
praise is glorious work for straightforward men.
2 Sing thanks to Jehovah with a lyre,
with a ten-stringed harp make music for him,
3 Sing a new song for him,
make the strings ring well!
4 For Jehovah’s word is straightforward
and all his work is done on honor.
5 He loves honesty and justice;
the earth is full of Jehovah’s friendliness.
6 By Jehovah’s word the sky was made,
and all its legions by the breath of his mouth.
7 He masses up the water of the sea like a heap of grain,
puts the deeps in storerooms.
8 Let all the earth stand in fear of Jehovah,
all the inhabitants of the world quail before him,
9 Because he said, and there it was,
he gave an order and there it stood.
10 Jehovah foils the policies of nations,
blocks the plans of peoples;
11 Jehovah’s policies stand forever,
the plans in his heart to generation after generation.
12 Happy the nation that has Jehovah for its God,
the people that he chose as his estate!
13 From heaven Jehovah looks,
sees all the sons of man.
14 From his firm seat he observes
all the inhabitants of the earth,
15 He who framed their hearts one and all,
who understands all their doings.
16 Never is the king saved by greatness of forces;
a champion is not delivered by greatness of strength.
17 The pony is an illusion for preservation,
and, with all its energy, it does not bring one safe off.
18 Jehovah’s eye is toward those who fear him,
those who rest their expectations on his friendliness,
19 To deliver their lives from death
and to maintain them in time of famine.
20 Our souls are waiting for Jehovah;
he is our help and our shield;
21 For our hearts are glad in him
because we have confidence in his hallowed name.
22 Let your friendship be over us, Jehovah,
as we rest our expectations on you.
(Of David’s, when he pretended before Abimelec that his wits were unsettled, and he turned him out and he went off.)
34 I will bless Jehovah at every time;
always in my mouth is his praise.
2 Of Jehovah my soul will make its boast;
humble men shall hear and be glad.
3 Proclaim Jehovah’s greatness with me
and let us exalt his name together.
4 I invoked Jehovah, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my terrors.
5 Look toward him and brighten up,
and let your faces not be abashed.
6 This was a wretched man, who called and Jehovah heard it
and saved him out of all his distresses.
7 Jehovah’s angel camps
around those who fear him and rescues them.
8 Taste and see that Jehovah is good;
happy is the man who takes refuge in him.
9 Fear Jehovah, you who are consecrated to him,
for those who fear him have no scarcity.
10 Lions in their youthful prime may go poor and hungry,
but those who invoke Jehovah shall not have too little of everything good.
11 Come, sons, listen to me,
I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.
12 Who is the man that would like life,
that loves years to see good in?
13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from uttering cheat;
14 Shun what is bad and do what is good;
try for a wholesome life and follow it up.
15 Jehovah’s eyes are toward honest men
and his ears are toward their call;
16 Jehovah’s face is against doers of evil
to blot out from earth the memory of them.
17 They cry, and Jehovah hears
and delivers them out of all their distresses.
18 Jehovah is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the battered-down in spirit.
19 Many evils an honest man suffers,
but out of them all Jehovah delivers him.
20 He guards all his bones;
not one of them is broken.
21 An evil will give a guilty man his death-stroke,
and those who hate an honest man shall stand condemned.
22 Jehovah redeems his servants’ lives,
and none shall stand condemned of those who take refuge in him.
(Of David’s.)
35 Oppose those who oppose me, Jehovah!
combat those who combat me!
2 Grasp buckler and shield
and stand up in my behalf,
4 Let those who are after my life
be disappointed and humiliated;
Let those who plan harm to me
fall back and be abashed;
5 Let them be like chaff before a wind,
with Jehovah’s angel pushing them,
6 Let their road be darkness and slippery rocks,
with Jehovah’s angel chasing them,
7 Because without a motive they laid their net for me,
sunk a pitfall for my life.
8 An unexpected storm shall come upon him
and the net that he laid catch himself,
into the pit he shall fall,
9 And my soul shall jubilate in Jehovah,
shall rejoice in his salvation.
10 All my bones shall say
“Jehovah, who is like you,
Deliverer of a downtrodden man from a stronger,
a man downtrodden and needy from the one who robs him?”
11 Malicious accusers stand up,
ask me things that I do not know about,
12 Repay me evil for good,
childlessness to my soul.
13 But I when they were sick had had a sackcloth for my clothing, had crushed down my appetite with fasting,
—and my prayer shall come back into my own lap.
14 I walked as if it were a friend, a brother of mine;
I went stooping and in black like one in mourning for a mother.
15 But at my breaking down they rejoiced and came together, smiters came together against me and I did not know it,
They assailed me and were not quiet.
16 When I was smitten, what they did was to make fun,
to grind their teeth at me.
17 Lord, how long will you look on?
bring my life back from the roaring lions,
from two-year-old lions my dear life.
18 I will thank you in a great assembly,
praise you among a mighty people.
19 Let those who are my enemies on false grounds not be joyous over me,
those who hate me for nothing not leer,
20 Because they talk nothing wholesome
and think up insidious words against my ease.
21 And they opened their mouths wide against me,
said “Oho, oho, he is getting it now!”
22 You saw it, Jehovah; do not be deaf!
Lord, do not stand aloof from me!
23 Rouse and wake in defense of my cause,
my God and Lord, in my behalf;
24 Do me justice in accordance with your fairness, my God Jehovah,
let them not have their joy over me!
25 Let them not say to themselves
“Ah there, something to relish!”
26 Let those be disappointed and abashed together
who have their joy over harm to me;
Let those be wrapped in disappointment and humiliation
who swagger over me.
27 Let those who take pleasure in having me found in the right carol and have joy
And say all the time “Great is Jehovah
who takes pleasure in his servant’s welfare!”
28 And my tongue shall voice your right-doing,
all day long your praise.
(Of the Director; of Jehovah’s servant; of David’s.)
36 Quoth a knave, “I have it at heart to be wicked”;
dread of God is nowhere within his sight,
2 Because, to his mind, he has made it slippery for him
to find out his guilt, to hate it.
3 The words of his mouth are villainy and fraud;
he rules out doing anything sensible or good;
4 He thinks up villainy as he lies in bed,
takes his stand on a road that is not good,
does not keep out of anything bad.
5 Jehovah, your friendliness is in the skies,
your faithfulness up to the heavens,
6 Your fairness is like God’s mountains,
your justice is the great deep;
man and beast you save, Jehovah.
7 How priceless is your friendship, God!
and mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8 They shall be refreshed with the rich flow of your house
and you will give them the stream of your nectar to drink.
9 For with you is the source of life;
by your shining we see light.
10 Keep up your friendship to those who know you
and your fairness to men of sincere heart.
11 Let the feet of pride not come in to me
and the hands of wrong-doers not dislodge me.
12 Doers of villainy have fallen there;
they are dashed down and cannot get up.
(Of David’s.)
37 Do not lose your temper at evil-doers
nor be jealous of rogues,
2 Because they will speedily be mowed like grass
and wilt as the verdure of plants does.
3 Rely on Jehovah, and do what is good;
live at home and cultivate fidelity,
4 And be happy because of Jehovah,
and let him give you what your heart is asking for.
5 Turn over the course of your affairs to Jehovah,
and rely on him, and he will act
6 And will bring your rightness out like the light
and the justice of your case like noonday.
7 Leave it silently to Jehovah and wait for him;
do not lose your temper at one who comes off successfully,
a man who executes deep-laid plots.
8 Give up anger and leave off ire;
do not lose your temper just to cause evil,
9 Because evil-doers will be exterminated,
and those who hope in Jehovah, they will possess the land.
10 And in a little longer the rascal is not there;
you observe his place, and he is not there;
11 But humble men will possess the land
and be happy because of abounding prosperity.
12 A rascal is forming designs against an honest man
and grinding his teeth at him;
13 The Lord laughs at him
because he sees that his day is coming.
14 Rascals have unsheathed swords
and strung their bows to bring down a needy and unfortunate man, to slaughter men whose course is straightforward.
15 Their swords shall go into their own hearts
and their bows shall break.
16 A few on the side of right
are better than a host of many rascals,
17 For rascals’ arms will be broken
but Jehovah holds honest men up.
18 Jehovah knows the lives of upright men,
and their inheritance shall be forever.
19 They shall not be put to shame at a time of disaster,
and in days of famine they shall have their fill.
20 For rascals shall perish
and Jehovah’s enemies are spent like the fuel of a kitchen brazier, spent in smoke.
21 A rascal is borrowing and will not pay,
but an honest man is gracious and is giving;
22 For those who are blessed by him will have possession of the land,
and those who are cursed by him will be cut off.
23 The places where a man sets his feet come from Jehovah;
he steadies him and keeps his course unswerving.
24 When he does fall he will not go flying,
because Jehovah holds him up by the hand.
25 I have been young and have been old,
and have never seen an honest man left in the lurch
and his offspring hunting for bread.
26 All day he is gracious and is lending,
and his offspring becomes a name to bless by.
27 Shun what is bad and do what is good
and live there forever,
28 Because Jehovah loves justice
and will not leave in the lurch those who are friends with him.
Rogues are rooted out forever,
and rascals’ line will be cut off;
29 Honest men will have possession of the land
and live in it evermore.
30 An honest man’s mouth breathes wisdom
and his tongue speaks justice.
31 His God’s instructions are in his heart;
his steps will not be shaky.
32 A rascal is on the watch for an honest man
and looking for a chance to take his life;
33 Jehovah will not abandon him into his hands
nor have him condemned when he comes into court.
34 Set your hope on Jehovah and keep to his course,
and he will uplift you to have possession of the land;
you shall look on while rascals are extirpated.
35 I saw a rascal arrogant
and leafed out like a verdant cedar;
36 But he went past, and he was not there,
and I looked for him and he was not to be found.
37 Keep to uprightness and look to straightforwardness,
because a man of peace has a future;
38 But criminals will be rooted out together;
rascals’ future will be cut off.
39 Honest men’s salvation comes from Jehovah,
their citadel at a time of distress,
40 And Jehovah will help them and see them through,
will see them clear of rascals
and save them because they took refuge in him.
(A psalm of David’s; for the memorial.)
38 Jehovah, do not correct me in your wrath
and discipline me in your ire!
2 For your arrows have sunk into me
and your hand rests on me.
3 There is not a sound spot in my flesh in consequence of your hostility;
there is no health in my bones in consequence of my sin;
4 For my guilts rise above my head;
like a load of dead weight they are too heavy for me.
5 My sores are reeking, rotted,
in consequence of my foolishness.
6 I am dizzy, I am very low indeed,
all day I go in black,
7 Because my loins are full of roasting heat
and there is not a sound spot in my flesh.
8 I am utterly benumbed and beaten down;
I roar out of the groaning of my heart.
9 Lord, all my craving is present before you,
my moaning is not concealed from you.
10 My heart throbs, my strength has left me,
the light of my very eyes is not by me;
11 My lovers and friends move off from my blight
and my nearest stand at a distance.
12 Those who are looking for my life set traps,
and those who aim at harm to me talk up catastrophes
and whisper fraud all day,
13 And I am like a deaf man who will not hear
and like a dumb man who will not open his mouth,
14 I have become like a person who does not hear
and has no protests to make,
15 Because I am waiting for you, Jehovah;
you were to answer, Lord, my God,
16 Because I thought “They might have a fine time over me;
when my foot slipped they said great things about me.”
17 For I am ready to break down,
always conscious of pain.
18 For I quail at my guilt,
am anxious over my sin,
19 And those who are against me for nothing are a strong party, and those who hate me on false grounds are many,
20 And those who pay me back evil for good
are hostile to me while I practice kindness.
21 Do not abandon me, Jehovah;
my God, do not be far from me.
22 Lord, my savior,
hasten to my help.
(Of the Director; of Jeduthun; a psalm of David’s.)
39 I said “I will watch my courses
to keep from sinning with my tongue;
I will put a muzzle on my mouth
so long as I am facing a rascal.”
4 “Make my end known to me, Jehovah,
and what is the measure of my days;
let me be conscious how transitory I am.
5 Here you have made my days some handbreadths
and before you my tenure of life is as if there were none of it;
every man bases himself just on air. (Selah)
6 A man walks along in a mere picture,
they make an uproar of mere air,
one piles up heaps and does not know who is going to take them home.
7 And now what am I counting on, Lord?
it is for you I wait.
8 Deliver me from all my crimes;
do not make me a butt for a scamp’s taunting.
9 I was mute, did not open my mouth,
because it was you that had acted.
10 Take your visitation off me;
by the stress of your hand I am finished.
11 With discipline for guilt you correct a man
and you melt down his attractive figure like a moth;
every man is just air.” [Selah]
12 Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear to my cry;
do not be deaf to my sobs;
For I am a visitor with you
and a tenant, like all my fathers.
13 Take your eyes off me and let me brighten up
before I go away and am gone.
(Of the Director; of David’s; a psalm.)
40 I rested my hope in Jehovah
and he bent toward me and heard my cry
2 And took me up out of a pit of ruin,
out of quagmire mud,
And set my feet to stand erect on a crag,
made my tread sure,
3 And put in my mouth a new song,
praise to our God;
Many will see and fear
and rest secure in Jehovah.
4 Happy the man who has made Jehovah his reliance
and not turned toward pretenders and lie-peddlers.
5 Many are your wonders that you,
Jehovah my God, have done,
And your conceptions for us
cannot be listed for you;
Would I state and recite them,
they are beyond telling the story.
6 Sacrifice and grain-offering you did not care for;
ears you gave me.
Burnt-offering and sin-offering you did not ask;
7 Then I said “Here I come,
I have my instructions in a book.”
8 I mean to do your pleasure, my God,
and I have your instructions in my bosom.
9 I have told the news of right-doing
in a great assembly;
Here, I do not lock up my lips,
Jehovah, you know.
10 I have not covered up your right-doing inside my heart;
I have told your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your friendship and loyalty
in a great assembly.
11 And you, Jehovah,
will not lock up your sympathy from me;
Your friendship and loyalty
will keep me always.
12 For evils have enveloped me beyond measure,
my misdeeds have overtaken me and I cannot see,
There are more of them than of hairs on my head,
and my heart has left me.
13 Be pleased to deliver me, Jehovah;
Jehovah, hasten to my help.
14 Let those be disappointed and abashed together
who are looking for my life to sweep it away;
Let those fall back and be humiliated
who would like harm for me.
15 Let those stand aghast as they look back on their disappointment who are saying “Oho, oho!”
16 Let all who go in quest of you
be joyous and merry in you;
Let those who love your salvation
say all the time “Jehovah is showing himself great!”
17 And me, insignificant and needy,
may the Lord have me in mind;
You are my help and deliverer;
my God, do not delay.
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s.)
41 Happy is one who acts considerately toward a poor man:
on a day of disaster Jehovah will see him through.
2 Jehovah will guard him and give him life;
he shall run a happy course in the country;
do not give him up to the will of his enemies.
3 Jehovah will uphold him on his invalid couch;
you make all his bed in his sickness.
4 Say I, Be gracious to me, Jehovah;
heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.
5 My enemies say bad words for me,
“how soon will he die and his name perish?”
6 And if one comes to see, his heart is talking untoward things; he accumulates villainy, goes out on the street and talks.
7 All who hate me are whispering over me together,
planning over me a mischief for me:
8 “His bale is washing over him,
and from where he has lain down he will never get up.”
9 Even the man I was on the best terms with, in whom I had confidence,
who ate my bread, has tricked me grossly.
10 Do you, Jehovah, be gracious to me and set me on my feet,
and I will pay them back.
11 By this I know you hold me dear,
that my enemies do not hurrah over me.
12 And me you hold up in my integrity
and have me standing before you forever.
(Of the Director; meditative; of the sons of Korah.)
42 Like a deer that stretches toward glens of water,
so, God, my soul stretches toward you.
2 My soul is thirsty for God, for living Deity;
how soon shall I go in and see God’s face?
3 I had my tears for bread day and night
at the saying to me all the time “Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul at the recollection,
how at the Feast of Booths I went skipping along to God’s house with voices of caroling and thanksgiving, a festal host.
5 Wherefore are you downhearted, my soul, and in a turmoil over my fate?
wait for God, for I shall again give thanks to him,
my open savior and my God.
6 Over my fate my soul is downhearted; therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan and the Hermons, from Mount Misghar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the noise of your flumes;
all your breakers and surges have gone over me.
8 By day I shout “Jehovah ordain his friendliness,”
and in the night I sing by myself a prayer to the God of my life;
9 I say to God my rock “Why have you forgotten me?
why do I go in black for oppression by an enemy?
10 For murder in my bones,—my foes taunt me,—
for their saying to me all the time ‘Where is your god?’”
11 Wherefore are you downhearted, my soul, and wherefore in a turmoil over my fate?
wait for God, for I shall again give thanks to him,
my open savior and my God.
43 Do justice for me, God, and vindicate my rights from an ungodly nation,
from men of fraud and foul play bring me to safety,
2 Because you are my citadel-God; why have you repudiated me?
why do I go in black for oppression by an enemy?
3 Send your light and your loyal help; let those lead me on,
let them bring me to your sacred mountain and to your abode,
4 And let me go in to God’s altar, the God of my glad jubilation, and I will thank you with a lyre, God, my God.
5 Wherefore are you downhearted, my soul, and wherefore in a turmoil over my fate?
wait for God, for I shall again give thanks to him,
my open savior and my God.
(Of the Director; of the sons of Korah; meditative.)
44 God, we have heard with our ears,
our fathers have told us the story,
Of work you did in their days,
in the days of old.
2 You with your own hand dispossessed nations and planted them, broke down many a folk and gave them free play.
3 For it was not by their swords that they got possession of a country,
nor was it their arm that saved them,
But your right hand and your arm
and the light of your face because you took them into favor.
4 You are my king, my God,
the ordainer of Jacob’s salvations,
5 By you we gore our foes,
by your name we tread down our adversaries;
6 For not in my bow will I put confidence,
and my sword shall not save me,
7 But you have saved us from our foes
and disappointed those who hated us.
8 Of God we boast all day
and thankfully acknowledge your name forever. (Selah)
9 And you have repudiated and humiliated us,
you do not go out on our campaigns,
10 You turn us back from a foe,
and our haters have their pillaging.
11 You make us like sheep to be eaten
and you have scattered us among the nations.
12 You sell your people for no great riches
and do not charge a high price for them.
13 You make us the butt of our neighbors’ taunts,
of the quips and gibes of those who live around us;
14 You make us a byword among the nations,
a thing that they shake their heads at in every folk.
15 All day I face my humiliation
and the consciousness of shame covers me
16 At the voices of taunter and vituperator,
at the faces of enemy and avenger.
17 All this has come to us, and we have not forgotten you
nor been false to your covenant,
18 Our hearts have not shrunk back
nor our steps swerved from your path,
19 That you have felled us in a place of jackals
and covered us over with gloom.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
and spread out our hands to a strange God,
21 Would not God look into this?
for he knows the secrets of hearts.
22 But it is on your account we have been killed all day,
thought of like slaughtering sheep.
23 Rouse up! why are you sleeping, Lord?
wake up! do not repudiate us permanently!
24 Why do you veil your face,
forget our wretched and oppressed condition?
25 For our souls are down to the earth,
our bodies flattened on the ground.
26 Stand up for our help,
and redeem us for your friendship’s sake!
(Of the Director; to “Lilies”; of the sons of Korah; meditative; a love song.)
45 My heart is busy on a good topic,
I am saying my verses for the king;
my tongue is a quick writer’s pen.
2 Superb are you beyond mankind;
charm is poured over your lips;
therefore God has blessed you forever.
3 Belt your sword to your side,
champion, your majesty and your splendor.
4 Ride successfully in the cause of truth, modesty, right,
and let your right hand give you terrible instructions.
6 God is your throne forever and evermore;
the scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of equity.
7 You love right and hate wrong;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with more of the oil of rejoicing than your compeers.
8 Your garments are all myrrh and eaglewood and cassia;
out of ivory palaces sounding strings gladden you.
9 A daughter of kings stands forth in your costly adornments,
at your right hand a queen in fine gold from Ophir.
10 Hear, daughter, and see, and bend your ear,
and forget your people and your family,
11 And have the king desire your beauty;
for he is your lord;
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall do reverence to you,
the rich men of a people shall bring presents to propitiate you.
13 A king’s daughter all glorious,
her dress coral in filigree of gold,
14 Is conducted to the king with dances,
maidens behind her, her companions, brought to you;
15 They are conducted with gladness and glee,
they enter the royal palace.
16 In place of your fathers shall be your sons.
You shall set them as viceroys all through the earth
17 I will make your name to be remembered in every succeeding generation;
therefore peoples shall praise you forever and evermore.
(Of the Director; of the sons of Korah; in falsetto voices. A song.)
46 God is to us refuge and strength,
a most accessible help in distress.
2 Therefore we will not be afraid when earth changes
and mountains rock in the heart of the sea,
3 Its water roars and foams,
mountains shake with its fury. (Selah)
4 A river’s channels gladden the city of God,
holiest of dwelling-places of the Most High.
5 She has God within her; she will not rock;
God will help her before the night is over.
6 Nations were in uproar, kingdoms rocked;
he has sounded his voice, earth goes back and forth;
7 Jehovah of Armies is with us;
we have Jacob’s God as our fastness. (Selah)
8 Come, view Jehovah’s doings,
the awful work he has wrought on earth,
11 Jehovah of Armies is with us;
we have Jacob’s God as our fastness. (Selah)
(Of the Director; of the sons of Korah; a psalm.)
47 All peoples, clap your hands!
shout for God with voice of cheer,
2 Because Jehovah is a terrible one on high,
a great king over all the earth!
3 He brings peoples down under us,
many a folk under our feet;
4 He chooses our estate for us,
the pride of Jacob whom he loves. (Selah)
5 God has come up with cheering,
Jehovah with sound of ram-horn.
6 Make music to God, make music!
make music for our King, make music!
7 For king of all the earth is God;
make well-considered music!
8 God reigns over nations,
God is seated on his hallowed throne.
9 Nobles of peoples have come together,
the people of the God of Abraham,
Because the shields of earth belong to God;
high indeed is he.
(A song, a psalm. Of the sons of Korah.)
48 Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised
in our God’s city, his sacred mountain.
2 Beautiful on its crest, the joy of all the earth,
is Mount Sion, deep in the north,
town of the Great King.
3 In her palaces God
has made himself known as a fastness.
4 For the kings had held their rendezvous,
had come over together—
5 Just as they saw it they found themselves in bewilderment,
in consternation, in haste of flight.
6 Quaking had seized upon them,
pangs as if of a childbearing woman.
7 With east wind
you shatter Spain-ships.
8 As we had heard, so we have seen
in the city of Jehovah of Armies, the city of our God;
God makes her firm forever. (Selah)
9 Within your temple, God,
we respond to your friendship.
10 As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth;
your right hand is full of right-doing.
11 Let Mount Sion be glad, let the daughters of Judah be gay,
for your deeds of justice.
12 Go round Sion,
make the circuit of her,
13 Take notice of her bulwark, survey her palaces,
in order that you may tell the story to an after generation.
14 For this is God, our God;
forever and evermore he will lead us on.
(In falsetto voices; of the Director; of the sons of Korah; a psalm.)
49 Hear this, all peoples,
give ear, all dwellers here below,
2 Humankind and sons of men,
together rich and poor.
3 My mouth shall speak wisdom
and the thought of my heart shall be reason.
4 I will bend my ear to aphorism,
will expound a problem with the lyre.
5 Why must I be afraid in days of evil,
with the knavery of my underminers all round me,
6 Who are confident in their fortunes
and boast of the greatness of their wealth?
7 Only not a man will buy himself off,
will give God his composition-money
8 The ransom of their lives is too high,
and they let it go forever—
9 That one should live on to perpetuity,
not see the Pit.
10 For see it he will. Wise men will die,
rattlehead and blockhead will perish as well,
and leave their fortunes to others.
11 Their graves are their houses forever,
their dwellings for generation after generation.
They have named lands after themselves,
12 but man is not in honor through the night;
He is on a level with the cattle—
all is over with them.
13 This course of theirs is a foolishness that they have;
and after them they run, going by their utterances. (Selah)
14 Like sheep they are brought down to the world below,
death shepherding them,
And upright men shall tread over them in the morning
and their forms are to waste away, having the world below for dwelling.
15 Yet God will ransom my soul
out of the hands of the world below when it takes me. (Selah)
16 Do not be afraid when a man grows rich,
when the assets of his house grow large;
17 For he will not at his death take it all along,
his assets will not follow him down.
18 Though he blesses himself in his life,
“they will praise you because you have done well by yourself,”
19 His soul will go in to be with the generations of his fathers who eternally do not see light.
(A psalm of Asaph’s.)
50 Deity, God, Jehovah has spoken
and called earth from sunrise land to sunset.
2 Out of Sion, perfection of beauty,
God has beamed.
4 Calling to the skies above
and to the earth to pronounce the verdict for his people,
5 “Bring together to me the men of my friendship,
those who have entered into covenant with me over a sacrifice,”
6 That the skies may report his right-doing,
that he is a judging God. (Selah)
8 I will not reprove you over your sacrifices,
and I have your burnt-offerings constantly before me;
9 I will not take a steer out of your house
nor he-goats out of your pens,
10 For all the wild things of the bush belong to me,
beasts on mountains where thousands dwell.
11 I know all birds of the mountains
and have in my mind the insects of the fields.
12 If I should grow hungry I would not tell you,
because I have the world and all that fills it.
13 Am I to eat bulls’ flesh
and drink he-goats’ blood?
14 Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God
and make good your vows to the Most High,
15 And call on me in a day of distress;
I will rescue you and you shall glorify me.
16 What business of yours is it to tell off my usages
and take my covenant into your mouth
17 When yourself you hate lessons
and throw my words behind you,
18 If you see a thief you say amen to him
and you are participant with adulterers,
19 You have put your mouth to vicious use
and your tongue is hitching up fraud,
20 You sit talking about your brother,
defaming your mother’s son?
21 These things you have done, and was I to keep silence?
You imagined I was positively like you;
I will arraign you and bring on the evidence before your eyes.
22 Understand this, forgetters of God,
for fear I should make a pounce from which nobody would deliver you:
23 He who makes thanksgiving his sacrifice is paying me honor,
and to him who holds to his course I will give the sight of God’s salvation.”
(Of the Director. A psalm of David’s, when the prophet Nathan came to him after he had gone in to Bath-Shebaʽ.)
51 Be gracious to me, God, in accordance with your friendliness; in accordance with your great tenderness, cancel my crime;
2 Wash my guilt thoroughly out of me and make me
clean from my sin.
3 For I am conscious of my crime
and have my sin always facing me.
4 Against you alone I sinned
and did what you found bad,
In order that you should be in the right when you speak
and be irreproachable when you judge.
5 It was in guilt I was brought to birth,
and in sin my mother received the seed for me.
6 Ah, you wish for truth in what is mistiest,
will open to me insight in what is unapparent,
7 Will take off my sin with marjoram and have me clean,
wash me out and have me come whiter than snow,
8 Set me to hearing joy and gladness;
let the bones you battered be gleeful.
9 Veil your face from my sins
and wipe out all my guilts.
10 Create a clean heart for me, God,
and put a new-resolved spirit within me.
11 Do not throw me out from your presence
and do not take your holy spirit from me.
12 Give me back the joy of your salvation
and let a ready spirit uphold me.
13 I will teach rebels your ways,
and sinners shall come back to you.
14 Deliver me from the stain of blood, God, God of my salvation; my tongue shall carol your right-doing.
15 Lord, open my lips
and my mouth shall tell your praise.
16 For you do not wish a sacrifice that I should give;
you would not welcome a burnt-offering.
17 God’s sacrifices are a broken spirit;
a heart broken and battered down, O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good to Sion in your kindness;
let Jerusalem’s walls be built.
19 Then you shall be pleased with rightful sacrifices, burnt-offering and offering entire;
then they shall burn steers on your altar.
(Of the Director; meditative. Of David’s, when Doeg the Edomite came in and reported to Saul “David went into Ahimelec’s house.”)
52 Why boast in evil, ruffian?
Deity’s friendship lasts all day.
2 You plan catastrophes; your tongue
is like a whetted razor, playing false.
3 You prefer evil to good,
falsehood to right speaking. (Selah)
4 You love all quibbling words,
a cheating tongue.
5 The Deity on his part will break you down for good,
scoop you up and tear you out of home
and your root out of the land of living men. (Selah)
6 And honest men shall see and fear
and laugh over him:
7 “There is the man that was not making God his citadel
but had put his confidence in the greatness of his riches,
was mighty by his capital.”
8 But I am like a verdant olive-tree in God’s house;
I have put my confidence in God’s friendship forever and aye.
9 I will thank you forever, because you acted,
and hope in your name, because it is good,
in the presence of the men of your friendship.
(Of the Director; to “Mahalath”; meditative, of David’s.)
53 A rascal has said to himself
“There is no God.”
They behave viciously, abominably;
there is nobody that does what is good.
3 The whole lot had drawn off together, had degenerated,
there was nobody that did what was good, not a single one.
4 Do all who perpetrate villainy not know?
those who eat up my people eat bread, never call on God,—
5 There they are seized with terror,
because God breaks up an ungodly man’s plan;
You shall put them to shame,
because God has repudiated them.
6 O for Israel’s salvation coming from Sion!
When God comes back to his people
Jacob will jubilate, Israel make merry.
(Of the Director; with string accompaniment; meditative; of David’s, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul “David is keeping himself concealed in our country.”)
54 Save me, God, by your name,
affirm my right by your feats;
2 Hear, God, my prayer,
give ear to the words of my mouth;
3 For high-handed men have stood up against me
and overbearing men are looking for my life,
have not set God before them. (Selah)
4 Here I have God to help me;
the Lord is a bearer-up of my soul.
5 Let evil come back upon my ill-wishers;
in your faithfulness annihilate them:
6 I will sacrifice to you without limit,
will give thanks to your name, Jehovah, because it is good,
7 Because you have delivered me out of all distress
and my eye has looked on at the fate of my enemies.
(Of the Director; with string accompaniment; meditative; of David’s.)
55 Give ear to my prayer, God,
and do not disregard my petition.
2 Listen to me and answer me:
I range about in my anxiety and am perturbed
3 At an enemy’s voice,
at a wrong-doer’s growl,
Because they are launching villainy against me
and pursuing an angry grudge against me.
4 My heart is convulsed within me
and terrors of death have fallen upon me,
5 Fear and quaking come into me
and a cold sweat has covered me,
6 And I think “If only I had wings like a dove!
I would fly off, would light,
7 Here I would flit far away,
would be in the wilderness for the night, (Selah)
8 Would make haste to some retreat
from driving wind, from tempest.”
9 Make a sweep, Lord! divide their tongues,
because I have seen outrage and feud in the city,
10 By day and by night going round it on its walls,
and villainy and mischief are within it.
11 It has malignity within it,
and extortion and fraud never budge out of its square.
12 For it is not an enemy that insults me;
I would bear it;
It was not my hater that swaggered against me;
I would veil my face from him;
13 But you, a man in my own class,
my comrade and my intimate—
14 We that used to have delightful intercourse,
to consort together at the house of God.
15 May death crash down on them!
may they go down alive to the world below!
for they had evil in their lockers, in their breasts.
16 For me, I will call to God
and Jehovah will save me.
17 Evening and morning and noon
I will grieve and plead that he may hear my voice.
18 He has brought off my life safe and sound
from those who were in ambush for me, near as they were to me.
19 Deity will hear
and he who is enthroned of old will tame them, (Selah)
Those for whom there are no changes
and who do not fear God.
20 He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him, profaned his covenant.
21 His face was smoother than clabber,
but his heart was war;
His words were softer than oil,
but drawn swords were they.
22 Throw your affairs on Jehovah and he will provide for you; forever he will not let the honest man give way.
23 And you, God, will send them down to the abysmal pit; cutthroats and cheats will not live half their time,
but I rest confident in you.
(Of the Director; to “Dove of Far-Off Oaks”; of David’s, a mictam when the Philistines took him in Gath.)
56 Show me grace, God, because man is snapping his jaws at me;
all day a battler is crowding me back.
2 My ill-wishers are snapping their jaws all day
because many are battling me bitterly.
3 On the day that I am afraid I will put confidence in you,
4 in God I will praise his word.
In God I rest confident; I will not be afraid;
what shall mortals do to me?
5 All day they talk torment,
their thoughts are about me for harm;
6 They start quarrels, hide traps,
watch my heels as they hope to get my life.
7 Because of their villainy there is no escape for them;
in anger bring down peoples, God.
8 You have counted my writhings;
my tears are placed in your bag.
9 Then, on the day when I call, my enemies will turn backward again;
this I know, that I have a God.
10 In God I will praise his word;
in Jehovah I will praise his word.
11 In God I rest confident; I will not be afraid;
what shall man do to me?
12 I owe you what I have vowed, God;
I will pay you thank-offerings,
13 Because you have delivered my soul from death,
to walk before God in the light of the living.
(Of the Director; “Do Not Spoil”; of David’s, a mictam, when he was in flight from Saul in the cave.)
57 Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me,
because my soul has taken refuge in you,
And in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge
till catastrophes pass by.
2 I will cry to God on high,
to a Deity who carries through what concerns me;
3 He will send from heaven and save me
from the hands of those who are panting after my life. (Selah)
4 In the midst of lions I will lie down,
such as flash at human beings;
Their teeth are spears and arrows
and their tongues sharp swords.
5 Abide aloft, God, above the sky,
your glory above all the earth.
6 They got a net ready for my steps—
their own foot was caught.
They dug a pitfall before me—
they fell squarely into it. [Selah]
7 My heart is firm, God, my heart is firm;
I will sing and make music.
8 Wake, my glory! wake, harp and lyre!
I will wake the dawn.
9 I will give you thanks among the nations, Lord,
I will make music among many a folk,
10 Because your friendliness is great to the skies
and your loyalty to the uppermost air.
11 Abide aloft, God, above the sky,
your glory above all the earth.
(Of the Director; “Do Not Spoil”; of David’s, a mictam.)
58 Do you indeed, notables, speak right,
judge even-handedly the sons of men?
2 Nay, at heart you practice foul play,
in the country your hands aim for outrage.
3 Tyrants are congenital perverts;
Falsifiers have gone wrong ever since they came out of their mother’s bodies.
4 The venom they have is the counterpart of a snake’s venom;
like a deaf viper that plugs its ear,
5 That will not listen to the voice of charmers,
of wisest sorcerer.
6 God, demolish their teeth in their mouths!
break down young lions’ fangs, Jehovah!
7 Let them dissolve like water running down a slope;
like dead grass let them be mowed—
8 Like a slug that melts off as it goes along,
an abortion that has not looked upon the sun.
9 Let their shoots dry out and be cut off
like thornbushes, like briers, like weed-stalks, be blown away.
10 Let a right-doer be glad because he has looked upon vengeance, let him bathe his feet in the wrong-doer’s blood,
11 That mankind may say “O, but the right-doer does get fruit;
O, but there are gods that judge on earth.”
(Of the Director; “Do Not Spoil”; of David’s, a mictam, when Saul sent and they were watching the house to put him to death.)
59 Deliver me from my enemies, my God,
set me out of reach of my adversaries;
2 Deliver me from villains;
save me from ruffians.
3 For here they have laid in ambush for my life,
powerful men are starting quarrels against me,
Not for crime of mine or sin of mine, Jehovah;
4 without guilt of mine they are running and making ready.
Rouse up to come to me, and see!—
5 and you are Jehovah God, Armies, the God of Israel.
Wake up to deal with all the nations;
show no favor to any treacherous villains. (Selah)
8 But you, Jehovah, will laugh at them,
will deride all nations.
9 My strength, toward you I watch,
because God is my fastness.
10 My God will bring on to me his friendliness;
God will let me see the fate of my ill-wishers.
11 Do not kill them, for fear my people should forget:
drive them by your forces to roving and roaming back and forth.
12 Hand them over, Lord, to the sins of their mouths,
the word of their lips; and let them be taken in their pride;
And for cursing and falsehood which they speak
13 finish them in ire, finish and let there be nothing of them,
And let them find out that God is ruler in Jacob
for the ends of the earth. (Selah)
15 As for them, they rove back and forth to eat,
if they do not get their fill they grumble.
16 But as for me, I sing your might,
carol your friendship when morning comes,
Because you have been a fastness to me,
a place to flee to on a day when I was in distress.
(Of the Director; to “Lily of Witness”; a mictam of David’s, to teach; in his struggle with the Syrians of Mesopotamia and of Sobah, when Joab came back and defeated the Edomites in Salt Valley, killing twelve thousand.)
60 You have repudiated us, God, broken us through;
you were angry; you should restore us.
2 You have shaken earth, cracked it open;
heal its breaks, for it is giving way.
3 You have shown your people a hard sight,
have given us a staggering drink of wine.
4 You have given those who fear you a standard
to rally in the face of bows. (Selah)
5 So that your darlings may be delivered
hold out your right hand and answer us.
9 Who will bring me to a city for a siege?
who has led me through to Edom?
10 Have not you, God, repudiated us?
and you do not go out, God, in our campaigns.
11 Give us help from a foe—
human salvation is futile.
12 Through God we shall play a sturdy part,
and he himself will trample down our foes.
(Of the Director; with, string accompaniment; of David’s.)
61 Hear my appeal, God,
listen to my prayer.
2 From the earth’s end to you I call when my heart is fainting away;
you will set me on a rock too lofty for me to climb,
3 Because you have been a refuge to me,
a tower of shelter before an enemy.
4 I will find a home in your tent eternally,
will take refuge under the screen of your wings. (Selah)
5 For you, God, have heard my vows,
have granted the request of those who fear your name.
6 You will add time to the king’s time;
his years shall be like generation upon generation;
7 He shall be enthroned forever before God;
set friendship and loyalty to keep him.
8 Thus I will make music to your name for aye,
paying my vows day by day.
(Of the Director over Jeduthun; a psalm of David’s.)
62 My soul is attentive just to God;
from him my salvation comes.
2 He, just he, is my rock and my salvation,
my fastness; I shall not be greatly stirred.
3 How long will you be bullying a man, murdering?
all of you are like a wall out of plumb, a fence knocked in.
4 They are just planning to knock off from his dignity;
they take satisfaction in lying;
With their mouths they bless
and inwardly they are cursing. (Selah)
5 Be attentive just to God, my soul,
because from him my hope comes.
6 He, just he, is my rock and my salvation,
my fastness; I shall not be stirred.
7 On God rest my salvation and my glory;
my citadel rock, my refuge, is in God.
9 Human beings are just air, sons of man a lie;
they are quicker to fly up in the balance together than a whiff of air.
10 Do not rely on sponging nor build air-castles on stolen goods; when wealth is fruitful do not be impressed.
11 One thing God has spoken,
two that I have heard,
12 That strength is God’s, and yours, Lord, is friendship;
that you will repay each man in accordance with his deeds.
(A psalm of David’s when he was in the wilderness of Judah.)
63 God, you are my Deity;
I go in quest of you;
My soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you,
like a droughty and thirsty country without water.
2 Thus have I sought for the vision of you,
to see your power and glory,
3 Because your friendship is better than life;
my lips shall praise you.
4 Thus I will bless you while I live,
will raise my hands in your name.
5 My soul will have its fill as if of fat and dripping,
and my mouth shall give praise with caroling lips.
6 If I remember you on my couch,
in the hours of night I muse on you.
7 For you have been a help to me
and in the shadow of your wings I carol.
8 My soul keeps close behind you
because your right hand holds me fast.
9 But they, they accomplish nothing by hunting for my life;
they shall go into the lowest depths of the earth,
10 Shall be laid low by the sword,
shall be the portion of foxes.
11 And the king, he will rejoice in Jehovah,
everyone who swears by him shall boast,
because those who are speaking falsely will be gagged.
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s.)
64 God, hear my voice in my anxiety;
you are to protect me from the dread of an enemy,
2 To screen me from a coterie of malefactors,
from an aggregation of villains,
3 Who have sharpened their tongues like swords,
have drawn their arrows, bitter matter,
4 To shoot from behind a blind at a steady man,
shoot him suddenly and not be seen,
5 Strengthen their position in a bad business,
recite directions for hiding traps;
They say “who sees them,
6 searches out their foul play?”
But the searching of them is done,
each man’s bosom is searched, and a deep heart,
7 And God shoots an arrow at them,
suddenly come their wounds,
8 And they make him stumble;
against them is their tongue;
Everybody that has the sight of them will make off,
10 A right-doer will rejoice in Jehovah and take refuge in him, and all who are of straightforward heart will boast.
(Of the Director; a psalm of David’s; a song.)
65 Praise responds to you, God, in Sion,
and to you vows have to be made good,
2 Hearer of prayer. To you all mortals shall bring matters of guilt;
3 our crimes are too much for me—you will purge them.
4 Happy he whom you choose and bring near to be an inmate of your courts;
we shall feed full upon the good things of your house, the sacred things of your sanctuary.
5 Terrible answers will you in fair dealing give us, God of our salvation,
reliance of all ends of earth and of distant coasts,
6 Planter of mountains by your strength,
belted with sturdiness,
7 Stiller of the roar of seas,
the booming of their waves,
8 At whose tokens the inhabitants of farthest ends are afraid, who set the portals of morning and evening to jubilating.
9 You look after the earth and make it teem,
give it great riches;
God’s canal is full of water;
you provide their grain when duly you have prepared the earth.
10 Drenching its furrows, washing down its ridges,
you churn it up with showers, you bless its sprouting.
11 You have put the crown on your year of goodness,
and your tracks drip fat.
12 Wilderness pastures drip
and hills put on a girdle of glee,
13 Uplands robe themselves with the sheep
and vales drape themselves with grain;
they triumph, yes, they sing.
(Of the Director; a song; a psalm.)
66 Shout for God, all the earth!
2 Make music for the glory of his name;
make his praise a glory.
3 Say of God “What a fearful thing are your works!
at the greatness of your might your enemies cringe to you.
4 All the earth shall do reverence to you
and make music for you, make music for your fame.” (Selah)
5 Come and see God’s doings;
he is fearful in action over humankind.
6 He turned a sea to dry land—
they were to cross the channel on foot;
there let us make merry in him!
7 He rules eternally by his might;
his eyes look out among the nations;
let the stubborn not set themselves up aloft. (Selah)
8 Bless our God, peoples,
make the sound of his praise heard,
9 Him who has put our souls into life
and has not yielded our feet to totter.
10 For you have assayed us, God,
smelted us as silver is smelted,
11 Brought us into the toils,
put a cinch round our waists,
13 I will come into your house with burnt-offerings,
will make good my vows to you,
14 Which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke
when I was in distress.
15 Burnt-offerings of fat tegs I will offer you,
with smoke of rams;
I will do steers with goats. (Selah)
17 I called to him with my mouth,
while acclamation waited under my tongue.
18 I said to my own self
“My Lord will not hear me”;
19 But God did hear me,
listened for the sound of my prayer.
(Of the Director; with string accompaniment; a psalm; a song.)
67 God be gracious to us and bless us,
show a shining face among us, (Selah)
2 That your course may be known in the earth,
your salvation among all the nations.
3 Let peoples praise you, God,
let peoples all praise you.
4 Let many a folk be glad and shout
because you judge peoples fairly
and guide many a folk on the earth. (Selah)
5 Let peoples praise you, God,
let peoples all praise you.
6 Earth has given its growth;
God, our God, blesses us.
7 God blesses us,
and let all the ends of earth fear him.
(Of the Director; of David’s; a psalm; a song.)
68 Let God stand up, let his enemies scatter,
and let those who hate him take flight before him.
3 But right-doers make merry, exult
before God, and rejoice merrily.
4 Sing for God, make music for his name;
lay a road for him who rides on the clouds;
make merry in Jehovah and exult before him.
5 Father of orphans, champion of widows’ causes,
is God in his hallowed dwelling.
6 God establishes isolated men in households,
brings prisoners out hardily—
only stubborn men lodge on bare rocks.
7 God, when you came out before your people,
when you paced forth in desert land, [Selah]
9 Showers of generosity you swing, God;
your estate, it was fatigued; you brought it into condition.
11 The Lord gives word;
the women that carry the news are a great host:
12 “Kings of hosts take flight, take flight,
and housemates divide booty”—
13 “If you lie in the forks of the paths”—
“A dove’s wings coated with silver
and its pinions with gold leaf”—
14 “By Shaddai’s breaking kings in it
let it snow in the Black Forest.”
15 A highland of God is the Bashan highland;
a rugged highland is the Bashan highland.
16 Why should you look with menacing eye, rugged highlands,
at the highland God desired to occupy,
and Jehovah will, too, dwell there forevermore?
17 God’s chariots are twenty thousand, thousands thousandfold; the Lord has come from Sinai into the sanctuary.
18 You have gone up on high, have brought a train of captives, have received human gifts,
and even sinful men are to be neighbors of Jehovah God.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who day by day takes our load;
the Deity is our salvation. (Selah)
20 The Deity is to us a deity for salvation,
and Jehovah the Lord has ways out of death.
21 God does shatter the heads of his enemies,
the thick-haired crown of one who goes around incurring guilt.
22 The Lord has said “Back from Bashan I will bring,
bring back from the bottom of the sea,
23 So that your foot may be dyed in blood, your dogs’
tongues may have their portion out of enemies.”
24 They see your processions, God,
the processions of my Deity, my King, in the sanctuary.
25 Singers go before, harpers behind,
in the midst of young women sounding their tambourines.
26 Bless God in assembled throngs,
the Lord out of Israel’s meeting.
27 There is Benjamin the little in men,
the captains of Judah the abundant in citizens,
the captains of Zebulun, the captains of Naphtali.
28 Ordain your might, God;
be mighty, God, you who wrought for us
29 Out of your temple, in behalf of Jerusalem;
to you kings shall bring a tribute.
30 Rebuke reed-beasts,
a company of bulls among calves of peoples,
One who tramples on silver chips;
scatter peoples that take pleasure in battle.
31 They shall bring bronzes from Egypt;
Nubia’s hands shall speed them to God.
32 Kings of the earth, sing to God,
make music for the Lord, (Selah)
33 Him who rides on the sky of the ancient sky;
lo, he sounds his voice with a tone of might.
34 Give might to God!
Over Israel is his pride, and his might is in the heavens;
35 Terrible is God out of his sanctuary;
Israel’s Deity is he, giver of might and multitude to the people.
Blessed be God!
(Of the Director; to “Lilies”; of David’s.)
69 Save me, God—
I am drowning.
2 I am sunk in a quagmire of ooze
with no standing-ground;
I have got into the deep places in the water,
and the current sweeps me away.
3 I am exhausted with calling out; my throat is inflamed;
my eyes have given out with waiting for my God.
4 There are more of those who hate me for nothing than of hairs on my head;
those who are enemies to me on false pretexts are more numerous than my bones;
what I have not stolen I am then to give back.
5 God, you are aware of my follies,
and my delinquencies are not unknown to you:
6 Let those who hope in you not be put to shame over me,
Jehovah of Armies,
Let those who seek for you not be humiliated over me,
God of Israel,
7 For it is on your account I have borne insult,
humiliation covers my face,
8 I have been made a stranger to my brothers,
a foreigner to my mother’s sons.
9 For jealousy for your house has eaten me up,
and the insults of those who were insulting you fell on me;
10 And I mortified my flesh with fasting
and it became ignominy to me,
11 And I made a sackcloth my clothing
and became a byword of theirs;
12 Sitters in the gate made me their topic,
and beer-drinkers made jingles about me.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to you;
let there now be acceptance,
God, in your great friendliness;
answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14 Deliver me out of the mud and let me not sink in;
let me be delivered from those who hate me and from deep holes in the water,
16 Answer me, Jehovah, because kind is your friendliness;
turn toward me as the abundance of your sympathy would have you,
17 And do not veil your face from your servant;
because I am in distress, answer me quickly.
18 Be near my soul; stand its friend in need;
redeem me on account of my enemies.
19 you know my ignominy and shame and humiliation;
all my foemen are before your presence;
20 Insult has broken my heart,
and my case is desperate,
And I hope for condolence and there is none,
for comforters and do not find any,
21 But they have put bitter juice in the meal that was to cheer me up,
and for my thirst they give me a drink of vinegar.
22 May their table become a trap for them,
their welfare-feasts the bait on a trigger;
23 May their eyes be darkened out of seeing;
set their backs to suddenly giving way at any time;
24 Pour out your hostility over them,
and may your anger overtake them;
25 May their camping-ground be desolate
and may there be nobody to live in their tents.
26 Because they pursued those whom you had struck
and added to the pain of those whom you had stabbed,
27 Put on guilt to their guilt
and may they not have the benefit of your right-doing.
28 May they be erased from the book of life
and not written down with honest men.
29 But I am in hardship and in pain;
may your salvation, God, set me out of reach of harm.
30 I will praise God’s name in song
and proclaim his greatness in thanksgiving,
31 And it will be better to Jehovah than a beast,
a horned and hoofed steer.
32 See, humble men, and be glad;
you who invoke God, and blithe be your hearts,
33 Because Jehovah is a hearer of needy men
and does not disdain his prisoners.
34 Let sky and earth praise him,
seas and everything that stirs in them,
35 Because God will save Sion,
will rebuild the cities of Judah,
and they shall live there and have possession of it,
36 And his servants’ issue shall take it as their estate
and those who love his name shall people it.
(Of the Director; of David’s; for the memorial.)
70 Be pleased to deliver me, God;
Jehovah, hasten to my help.
2 Let those be disappointed and abashed
who are hunting after my life;
Let those fall back and be humiliated
who would like harm for me.
3 Let those stand aghast as they look back on their disappointment
who are saying “Oho, oho!”
4 Let all who go in quest of you
be joyous and merry in you;
Let those who love your salvation
say all the time “God is showing himself great!”
5 And me, insignificant and needy,
make haste for me, God;
You are my help and deliverer;
my God, do not delay.
71 In you, Jehovah, I take refuge;
forever let me not be disappointed.
2 In your right-doing deliver me and bring me through;
turn your ear toward me and save me.
4 My God, bring me off out of a wrong-doer’s hands,
out of the clutch of an unscrupulous and unjust man.
5 For you are my hope, Lord;
Jehovah has been my confidence from my childhood;
6 On you I have propped myself ever since my birth;
it was you that severed me from my mother’s body;
for you is my constant praise.
7 I rate like a miracle for many,
and you are my sheltering refuge.
8 My mouth shall be filled with your praise
and your magnificence all day.
9 Do not throw me away at the time of old age,
when my strength gives out do not abandon me,
10 For my enemies are saying of me
and those who watch for my life are conferring together,
11 Saying “God has abandoned him;
give chase and catch him, for there is nobody to deliver him.”
12 God, do not be far off from me;
my God, hasten to my help.
13 Let those who are adversaries to my life be disappointed, give out;
let those who are looking for harm to me be wrapped in ignominy and humiliation.
14 But I will be always in expectation
and be adding to all your praise;
15 My mouth shall tell the story of your right-doing
and your salvation all day,
For I do not know books,
16 I am bringing the Lord Jehovah’s exploits,
I commemorate your right-doing, yours alone.
17 God, you have taught me since my childhood,
and down to now I am telling your wonderful deeds;
18 And even to old age and gray hair,
God, do not abandon me,
Till I tell of your arm to a generation that is coming.
19 Your might and your right-doing, God, are most high,
Forasmuch as you have done great things.
God, who is like you?
20 You who have showed us distresses many and grievous
will again bring us to life
and again bring us up from the deeps of the earth.
21 Give me much greatness,
comfort me more and more.
22 I on my part will give thanks to you,
with a harp to your faithfulness, my God,
Will make music for you with a lyre,
Holy One of Israel.
24 My tongue too all day
shall deal with your right-doing,
Because shamed are they, abashed are they,
who seek harm for me.
(Of Solomon’s.)
72 God, give a king your justice,
a king’s son your right-dealing!
2 He will give his verdicts to your people rightly
and to your downtrodden justly.
3 Mountains shall carry peace for the people,
and hills, by right.
4 He will do justice for downtrodden classes,
will save sons of poverty,
and will beat down a refuser of rights.
5 He shall last along with the sun,
and before the moon for a cycle of generations.
6 He shall come down like rain on mowings,
like showers drenching earth.
7 In his days right will flower
and plentiful peace till there shall be no moon.
8 And he shall have the mastery from sea to sea
and from the River to ends of earth.
9 Before him foes shall stoop
and his enemies shall lick dust.
10 Kings of Spain and islands shall pay him tribute,
kings of Sheba and Seba present gratuities,
11 And all kings shall do him reverence,
all nations be subject to him.
12 For he shall deliver needy suppliant
and downtrodden man and man whom none will help,
13 He shall have mercy on poor man and needy
and save needy men’s lives,
14 From extortion and outrage he shall protect their lives,
and deem their blood worth his attention,
15 That he may live and may be given gold from Sheba
and that they may pray for him continually,
may bless him all the day,
16 There may be plenty of grain in the country,
shaking on mountaintops,
His fruit may be like that of the Lebanon
and the offspring of his body like the herbage of the earth.
17 Be his name forever,
before the sun be his name set firm,
And may they bless by him,
all nations proclaim his happiness!
18 Blessed be Jehovah God, Israel’s God,
who alone does wonders,
19 And blessed be his glorious name forever
and be all the earth filled with his glory!
Amen and amen!
20 End of the prayers of David the son of Jesse.
(A psalm of Asaph’s.)
73 Assuredly the Deity is good to the upright man,
God to the single-hearted.
2 But as for me, my feet were very near going wrong,
my steps were at the point of slipping,
3 Because I was jealous at reckless men,
seeing the welfare of wrong-doers,
4 That they are under no duress,
their paunch is sound and plump.
5 They are not in the troubles of humanity
and are not stricken with mankind.
6 So pride is their necklace,
a drapery of enormities wraps them round,
7 Their complexion is clearer than milk,
they surpass the imagery of fancy.
8 They crack jokes over bad things
and refuse justice in most lofty terms.
9 They have set their mouth in the sky
and their tongue walks about on earth.
10 So his people turns back to this,
and they are humiliated at the fullness of them
11 And say “How can it be that Deity knows
and there is knowledge on high?
12 Here these are wrong-doers
and forever undisturbed, they aggrandize their fortunes.
13 It was just to no purpose that I kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence,
14 And I have been smitten all day
and my chastisement comes every morning.”
15 If I thought I would tell the story like that
I should be faithless to the generation of your children.
16 And I studied to know about this;
I found it a trying task
17 Till I went into Deity’s sanctuary,
discerned their future:
18 You set their feet altogether in slippery places
and bring them to their fall with blasting.
19 How they have become blighted wrecks in an instant,
ended, totally gone in dissolution,
20 Like a dream that after waking is not there,
at rousing you despise its images!
21 When my heart goes sour
and I am pricked in my bosom,
22 I am brutish and do not know;
I am a beast to you.
23 But I am always with you;
you hold my right hand;
24 You will guide me on the line of your plan
and afterward take me in glory.
25 Who is there for me in heaven?
and beside you I care for nothing on earth.
26 My muscles and my brain are giving out,
but God is my portion forever.
27 For those who are far from you do perish,
you annihilate those who leave you and find an unlawful mate,
28 But to me God’s nearness is good;
I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge,
telling the story of all your workings.
(Meditative; of Asaph’s.)
74 Why do you permanently repudiate us, God,
why is your anger at the sheep you tended so smoking hot?
2 Remember your congregation you acquired of old,
claimed as the tribe of your estate,
The mountain of Sion on which you dwell,
3 which your footsteps have exalted to perpetual sublimity.
An enemy has done everything bad to the holy things.
4 Your foemen roared like wild beasts within your meeting-place,
set their ensigns as signs.
5 It shows like one who brings axes in upward into a thicket of wood,
6 And now they are battering its carvings one and all with ax and crowbar.
7 They have set fire to your sanctuary,
desecrated the abode of your name down to the ground.
8 They said to themselves “We will overbear them one and all, will burn all meeting-places for divine service in the country.”
9 We have not seen our signs; there is no longer any prophet;
we have nobody with us who knows how far it will go.
10 How long, God, shall a foe offer insults?
Shall an enemy eternally treat your name with contempt?
11 Why do you draw back your hand
and imprison your right hand in the fold of your robe?
12 But God is my King from of old,
who does saving work in the midst of the earth.
13 It was you that by your might tore sea with convulsions
and broke monsters’ heads to pieces over the water;
14 It was you that splintered Leviathan’s heads,
giving him for food to the race of wildcats;
15 It was you that opened up spring and arroyo,
it was you that dried out perennial rivers.
16 Yours is day, yours too is night;
it was you that installed heavenly orb and sun.
17 It was you that set all the boundaries of earth;
summer and winter it was you that framed.
18 Remember this; an enemy has been taunting Jehovah,
an uncivilized people have treated your name with contempt.
19 Do not give up to wild beasts a soul that gives its thanks to you;
do not permanently forget the life of your sufferers.
20 Look at your creatures filling with viciousness,
for earth is the field of outrage.
21 Let a downtrodden man not come back humiliated;
let a sufferer and a needy man praise your name.
22 Stand up, God, defend your rights!
remember the insults you have had from rascals all day!
23 Do not forget the voice of your foemen,
the hubbub of those who are out against you, that goes up all the time!
(Of the Director; “Do Not Spoil”; a psalm of Asaph’s, a song.)
75 We thank you, God, we thank you
and call on your name, tell the story of your wonders.
2 “When my day comes
I will judge evenhandedly.
3 Earth and all its inhabitants swing back and forth—
I make its pillars fast. (Selah)
4 I say to reckless men ‘Do not be so reckless,’
and to wrong-doers ‘Do not carry your horns so loftily.’”
5 Do not carry your horns so very loftily,
talking arrogance against the Rock;
6 For not from east nor from west
nor yet from wilderness comes uplifting,
7 But God gives judgment,
brings this one down and that one up.
8 For Jehovah has in his hand a cup
with foaming wine full of strong spice,
And he pours to this one and to that one;
they are to drain its very dregs,
all earth’s wrong-doers are to drink.
9 But I will exult forever,
will make music to the God of Jacob,
10 And chop off all the horns of wrong-doers;
right-doers’ horns shall be carried loftily.
(Of the Director; with string accompaniment; a psalm of Asaph’s; a song.)
76 Known in Judah is God,
in Israel his name is great,
2 And he has his lodge in Salem
and his dwelling in Sion.
3 There he broke quiver and bow,
shield and sword and battalion. (Selah)
4 More grand and resplendent are you
than mountains of prey.
5 Men of warlike heart were despoiled, lay sound asleep,
and not any stalwart men could find their hands.
6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
chariot and pony were in a trance.
7 Fearful are you, and who will stand his ground before you
in your moment of anger?
8 From heaven you proclaimed a sentence;
earth feared and was still
9 When God stood up for judgment
to save all earth’s sufferers. (Selah)
10 For man’s rage pays homage to you,
and the remnant from rage you gird up.
11 Vow and pay to your God Jehovah;
all who live around him shall bring tribute to the Fearful.
12 He abates the spirits of potentates;
he is fearful to the kings of earth.
(Of the Director over Jeduthun; of Asaph’s; a psalm.)
77 Aloud to God I cry,
aloud to God that he may give ear to me.
2 In my day of distress I invoke the Lord,
I spread out my hands.
By night my soul drains out
and never has its pain dulled, refuses to be comforted.
3 I remember God and am in a turmoil;
I muse and my spirit fails me. (Selah)
4 My eyelids are held,
I am oppressed and cannot speak.
5 I think over ancient days,
remember years of old;
6 I wonder to myself in the night;
I muse and make mental explorations:
7 Does the Lord repudiate us forever and ever,
and will he never again be favorable?
8 Is his friendship permanently at an end,
is all over with his loyalty, generation after generation?
9 Has Deity forgotten graciousness
or shut up his sympathies in anger? (Selah)
10 And I thought of Jehovah’s being sick,
of change in the right hand of the Most High.
11 I bring to mind Jehovah’s doings,
because I remember out of ancient time your work of wonder,
12 And study over all your activities
and muse on your deeds.
13 God, through the holy sphere is your course;
who is so great a deity as God?
14 You are the Deity that did work of wonder,
made your might known among the peoples.
15 With might and main you championed your people
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah)
18 The sound of your thunder went like chariot-wheels,
lightnings lighted up the world,
earth quavered and quaked.
19 Your road was through the sea
and your paths through a great water,
and your footprints were not known.
20 You led your people along like a flock of sheep
by the hands of Moses and Aaron.
(Meditative; of Asaph’s.)
78 Give ear to my instructions, my people,
bend your ears to the say of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a lesson of history,
will stream mysterious facts from ancient time.
3 What we have heard and know
and our fathers have told us
4 We will not conceal from their children,
telling the tale to a later generation,
Jehovah’s praises and his feats of might
and the wonders that he did
5 And set up a testimony in Jacob
and established a code of instructions in Israel
Which he commanded our fathers
to make known to their children,
6 In order that a later generation might know,
children that were to be born,
Might stand up and tell the story to their children,
8 And not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that had not set its heart firm
and whose spirit was not loyal to Deity;
9 Sons of Ephraim who, archers armed,
turned round on a day of combat.
10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to go by his instructions,
11 And forgot his deeds
and his wonders that he had showed them.
12 Before their fathers he did wonderfully,
in Egypt, the countryside of Soan.
13 He split a sea and brought them through,
standing the water up as if in a heap,
14 And guided them by a cloud by day
and at night by a light of fire.
15 He cracked open rocks in the wilderness
and gave drink as abundant as the deeps,
16 And brought out a flow from a crag
and made water come down like rivers.
17 But they went right on sinning against him,
disobeying the Most High in the land of drought,
18 And had the thought of putting Deity on trial,
asking for food for their appetites,
19 And talked at God, said
“Can Deity set a table in the wilderness?
20 Here he has struck a rock
and water ran out and arroyos ran in freshet,
Can he give bread too
or provide meat for his people?”
21 So Jehovah heard and was furious,
and a fire broke out in Jacob
and anger at Israel came up withal,
22 Because they did not have faith in God
nor put their trust in his salvation;
23 And he gave orders to the heavens above
and opened the doors of the sky,
24 And rained on them manna for food
and gave them corn of heaven.
25 A man ate the bread of angels;
he sent them all the provision they required.
26 He had an east wind set out in the sky,
drove on a south wind by his power,
27 And rained meat on them like the soil they trod on
and winged birds like the sand of the seas,
28 And let it fall within their camp,
around their lodges,
29 And they ate and had every bit they could hold,
and he brought them what they craved.
30 They were not cloyed from their craving,
they still had their food in their mouths,
31 And God’s anger against them came up
and he killed among their plumpest
and brought down Israel’s young men.
32 With all this they still sinned
and did not have faith in his wonders;
33 And he finished off their days with prostration
and their years with palpitation.
34 If he killed them they invoked him,
and came back in quest of Deity,
35 And remembered that God was their Rock
and the Deity on high their Friend in need,
36 And cajoled him with their mouths
and lied to him with their tongues,
37 But their hearts were not firmly with God
and they were not loyal to his covenant.
38 But he is tenderhearted,
purging away guilt and not dealing destruction,
And does much of turning back his anger
and does not stir up his ire,
39 And he remembered that they were mortals,
a wind that goes and does not come back.
40 How often they disobeyed him in the wilderness,
grieved him in desert land,
41 And put Deity on trial over again
and brought regret to the Holy One of Israel!
42 They did not remember his hand,
the day he redeemed them from distress,
43 Exhibited his tokens in Egypt
and his miracles in the countryside of Soan,
44 And turned the branches of their Nile to blood,
and their waters were undrinkable;
45 He sent among them ʽarob flies that ate them up
and frogs that infested them;
46 He gave their growing things to the fall grasshoppers
and what had come of their toil to the spring grasshoppers;
47 He killed their grapevines with hail
and their sycamore trees with frost;
48 He handed their cattle over to the hail
and their stock to the firebolts.
50 he saw to a path for his anger.
He did not hold back their souls from death
but handed their lives over to the pestilence,
51 And struck every eldest son in Egypt,
the firstfruit of their powers in the homes of Ham,
52 And set his people in motion like so many sheep
and drove them along in the wilderness like a flock,
53 And led them in secure confidence, they felt no dread,
and the sea covered their enemies.
54 And he brought them into his sacred territory,
that highland his right hand had gained,
55 And expelled nations before them
and allotted them as definite estate,
and settled in their homes the tribes of Israel.
56 But they put the Most High God on trial and disobeyed him,
and did not keep to his lessons,
57 But fell away and were faithless like their fathers,
turned over like an unreliable bow,
58 And provoked him with their heights
and stirred his jealousy with their rock-carvings.
59 God heard and was furious
and utterly spurned Israel,
60 And abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up for presence among men,
61 And gave his power into captivity
and his magnificence into the hands of a foe,
62 And handed his people over to the sword
and was in wrath at his estate.
63 Fire consumed its young men
and its maidens raised no death-song.
64 Its priests fell by the sword
and its widows did not weep.
65 But the Lord woke up like one who had been asleep,
like a champion who had been overcome by wine,
66 And drove his foes back,
put them to perpetual ignominy,
67 And repudiated Joseph’s tent
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Sion which he loves,
69 And built his sanctuary like the peaks,
like the earth whose foundations he has fixed forever,
70 And chose his servant David
and took him from the work of the sheep,
72 And he shepherded them with sincere heart
and guided them with intelligent hands.
(A psalm of Asaph’s.)
2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air,
the flesh of your friends to the wild beasts of the earth.
3 They poured their blood out like water around Jerusalem
and there was nobody to bury them.
4 We became the butt of our neighbors’ taunts,
of the quips and gibes of those who live around us.
5 How long, Jehovah, will you be persistently angry,
shall your jealousy burn like a fire?
6 Pour out your ire on the nations that do not know you
and on kingdoms that have not called on your name,
7 For they have eaten Jacob up
and desolated his ground.
8 Do not remember against us our former guilts;
let your sympathy come in quickly for us,
because we are in great want.
9 Help us, God of our salvation, in consideration for the honor of your name,
and deliver us and purge our sins for your name’s sake.
10 Why should the nations say “Where is their God?”
under our eyes let the vengeance for the shed blood of your servants be notable among the nations.
11 Let prisoners’ groaning come in before you;
with your so great arm release men under sentence of death;
12 And return to our neighbors seven times over into their bosoms the insults they have offered to you, Lord;
13 And we, your people, the sheep you tend, will give you thanks forever,
will tell of your praise to generation after generation.
(Of the Director; to “Lilies a testimony”; of Asaph’s; a psalm.)
80 Shepherd of Israel, give ear,
you who guide Joseph along like a drove of sheep;
You who are seated on the cherubs, beam out
3 Bring us back, God,
and show a shining face, and let us be saved.
4 Jehovah, God, Armies,
till when are you smoking hot at your people’s prayer,
5 Feeding them tear-bread
and giving them tears to drink by the gallon?
6 You are making us an object for our neighbors’ quarrels,
and our enemies amuse themselves with us.
7 Bring us back, God, Armies,
and show a shining face, and let us be saved.
8 You move a grapevine out of Egypt,
dislodge nations and set it out,
9 Clear the ground before it and get it rooted,
and it fills the country;
10 Mountains are covered with its shadow,
mighty cedars with its branches;
11 It is running its canes to the sea
and its shoots to the River;
12 Why is it you have breached its fences
and everybody that comes along the road is picking at it,
13 Hogs out of the badlands are eating it off,
and beasts of the range are browsing on it?
14 God, Armies, come back,
look from heaven and see,
15 And care for this vine and put it in order,
what your right hand planted,
and the son you appropriated to yourself.
16 They have burned it down, lopped it off;
let them perish at the rebuke of your face.
17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand
and the son of man you appropriated to yourself,
18 And we will not fall back from you;
bring us to life, and we will call on your name.
19 Jehovah, God, Armies, bring us back;
show a shining face, and let us be saved.
(Of the Director; to the Gittith. Of Asaph’s.)
81 Shout for God our strength,
cheer for Jacob’s God!
2 Strike up music and sound tambourine,
dulcet lyre with harp,
3 Blow the ram-horn at the new moon,
at the full, on the day of our feast.
4 For that is an institution of Israel’s,
a due of Jacob’s God.
6 “I let his shoulder turn away from the load;
his hands shall pass the basket by;
7 You called in distress, and I have rescued you.
I will answer you through a screen of thunder;
I will test you at a water of dispute. [Selah]
8 Listen, my people, and let me testify to you;
Israel, if you will listen to me,
9 Have no strange deity among you
and not do reverence to any foreign deity,
10 I Jehovah am your God,
who am bringing you up out of Egypt;
open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11 But does my people not listen to my voice,
will Israel not have me,
12 I will turn them loose to their willful wicked way;
they shall go by their own contrivances.
13 If my people did listen to me,
Israel did go my ways,
14 Readily would I humble their enemies
and bring my hand back against their foes.
15 Those who hate Israel should cringe to him
and their disaster be forever.
16 I would feed him out of the richest of wheat
and give you out of rocks your fill of honey.”
(A psalm of Asaph’s.)
82 God stands in the divine convention,
pronounces judgment in the midst of gods.
2 “How long will you judge unfairly,
show favor to wrong-doers? (Selah)
3 Give judgment for poor man and orphan;
allow a downtrodden and impoverished man to be in the right.
4 Preserve a poor and needy man;
deliver him from wrong-doers’ hands.
6 I thought you were gods,
and sons of the Most High all of you;
7 But you shall die like human beings,
fall like any grandees.”
8 Rise, God; judge the earth;
for you are liege lord over all the nations.
(A song; a psalm of Asaph’s.)
83 Do not take repose, God;
do not be deaf, Deity, nor quiet,
2 Because here are your enemies making an uproar,
your haters raising their heads,
3 Conspiring in an artful plot against your people
and consulting over a policy against the objects of your protection.
4 They say “come on, we will efface their nationality
and the name of Israel shall not be remembered anymore.”
5 For they have come to a unanimous agreement,
formed a league against you,
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagarites,
7 Gebal and ʽAmmon and ʽAmalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Assyria has joined them too,
they have reinforced the sons of Lot. [Selah]
9 Do to them as you did to Midian,
to Sisera, to Jabin, at Kishon Arroyo,
10 That were annihilated at ʽEn-Dor,
that became manure for the soil.
11 Make them, their nobles, like Raven and like Wolf,
like Zebah and Salmunnaʽ all their dukes,
12 Those who have said “Let us take
God’s meadows for our possession.”
13 My God, make them like a tumbleweed,
like straw before a wind;
14 Like a fire burning out a brush-patch
or a conflagration blazing over mountains,
15 So you will chase them with your tempest
and drive them in consternation by your gale.
16 Fill their faces with disgrace
that they may seek out your name, Jehovah,
17 May have unending shame and consternation
and be abashed and perish,
18 And know it is you alone that are named Jehovah,
on high over all the earth.
(Of the Director; to the Gittith; of the sons of Korah; a psalm.)
84 How lovable your dwelling-places are,
Jehovah of Armies!
2 My soul yearns, yes, breaks down with its eagerness for Jehovah’s courts;
my heart and flesh shout toward living Deity.
3 Even a little bird has found a house,
and a swallow a nest for herself,
That has placed her brood by your altars,
Jehovah of Armies, my King and my God.
4 Happy those who live at your house;
they will keep praising you. (Selah)
5 Happy are men who have strength in you,
who have highways at heart,
6 Those who pass through Baca Vale
making it a region of springs,
even pools that fall rain overspreads.
7 They go on from good times to good times;
Deity, God, is to be seen at Sion.
8 Jehovah, God, Armies, hear my prayer; [Selah]
give ear, God of Jacob:
9 See our shield, God,
and look at the face of your anointed.
10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand;
I had rather be at the threshold of the house of my God
than lodge in tents of wickedness.
11 For our God Jehovah is a sun and shield;
Jehovah will give grace and glory,
will not withhold good from those who go by a good conscience.
12 Jehovah of Armies,
happy the man that puts confidence in you.
(Of the Director; of the sons of Korah; a psalm.)
85 You took your country into favor, Jehovah,
came back to Jacob,
2 Pardoned your people’s guilt,
covered up all their sin, [Selah]
3 Drew back all your wrath,
put a stop to your anger.
4 Come back to us, God of our salvation,
and suppress your vexation at us.
5 Will you be angry with us forever,
carry your anger on from generation to generation?
6 Will not you, you, again bring us to life
and let your people be glad in you?
7 Show us your friendship, Jehovah,
giving us your salvation.
8 I will hear what the Deity Jehovah will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people and the objects of his friendship
and to those who turn their hearts back to him.
9 All near for those who fear him is his salvation,
for glory to dwell in our country,
10 Friendliness and loyalty having met,
right and peace having kissed,
11 Loyalty springing up from the earth
and right looking out from the sky,
12 Jehovah too giving goodness
and our earth giving its growth,
13 Right going before him
and salvation by the road he treads.
(A prayer of David’s.)
86 Bend your ear, Jehovah, answer me,
because I am unhappy and needy.
2 Preserve my life, because I am a man of your friendship;
save your servant who puts his trust in you.
3 You are my God; be gracious to me,
because I call to you all day.
4 Gladden your servant’s soul,
because it is on you, Lord, that I count.
5 For you, Lord, are kind and forgiving
and of great friendship to all who call on you.
6 Give ear to my prayer, Jehovah;
listen to my suppliant voice;
7 In my day of distress I call to you
because you will answer me.
8 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord,
and there are not the like of your deeds.
10 Because you are great and doer of wonders,
you alone are God.
12 I will give you thanks, my Lord, my God, with all my heart, and glorify your name forever,
13 Because your friendliness is great toward me
and you deliver my life from the bottom of the realm of death;
14 For high-handed men stood up against me
and a company of overbearing men were looking for my life
and had not set you before them,
15 But you, Lord, are a deity tenderhearted and kindly,
patient and very friendly and loyal.
16 Turn toward me and be gracious to me;
give your shelter to your servant
and save your bondwoman’s son.
17 Do by me a token of good,
that those who hate me may see, and be disappointed,
that you, Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me.
(Of the sons of Korah; a psalm; a song.)
87 His foundation on sacred mountains
2 Jehovah loves, the gates of Sion
more than all the abodes of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are to be spoken of you,
city of God! (Selah)
4 I will mention Rahab and Babylon for those who know me;
here are Philistia and Tyre, with Nubia,
this one was born there.
5 But of Sion it shall be said “Man upon man was born in her,” and he, the Most High, holds her fast.
6 Jehovah will count in the register of peoples
“This one was born there.” (Selah)
7 And singers as well as dancers
will all shout of you.
(A song; a psalm of the sons of Korah; of the Director; to “Mahalath”; for intonation; meditative, of Heman the Ezrahite’s.)
88 Jehovah, my God, I clamor by day,
I cry in your presence by night.
2 Let my prayer come before you,
bend your ear to my appeal,
3 Because my soul has its fill of evils
and my being is touching the realm of the shades,
4 I rank as down in the Pit,
I have become like a man beyond assistance,
5 Free among the dead,
like stabbed men, men lying in graves,
Whom you no longer remember,
they being sundered from your hand;
6 You have laid me in the bottom of the Pit,
in depths of darkness and abysses of ooze.
7 On me your ire rests its weight
and you have brought in all your breakers. (Selah)
8 You have taken my acquaintances far away from me,
made me an object of abhorrence to them,
Shut up so that I cannot get out;
9 my eye has grown hopeless with misery.
I have called to you, Jehovah, every day,
have laid my hands out toward you.
10 Will you do wonders for the dead,
or will shades stand up and give you thanks? (Selah)
11 Will your friendliness be told of in the grave,
your faithfulness in the land of the gone forever?
12 Will your wonders be made known in the darkness
and your right-doing in the land of forgottenness?
13 But I, Jehovah, clamor to you
and in the morning my prayer presents itself to you.
14 Why do you disown my soul, Jehovah,
veil your face from me?
15 From a child I have been wretched and worn,
have carried your terrors, been unnerved,
16 Your blasts of anger have swept over me,
your overwhelmings have annihilated me,
17 They have swept around me like water all day,
united to hem me in.
18 You have taken lover and friend far away from me,
my acquaintances are darkness—
(Meditative; of Ethan the Ezrahite’s.)
89 Jehovah’s acts of friendship I will forever sing;
to generation after generation I will announce your faithfulness with my mouth,
2 Because you have said “Forever shall friendship be built up”; in the skies you set your faithfulness firm.
3 “I have covenanted to my chosen one,
sworn to my servant David,
4 ‘To all time I will set your posterity firm
and build your throne to generation after generation’”; [Selah]
5 And heaven shall acknowledge your wonders, Jehovah,
your faithfulness too, in the assembly of holy ones.
6 For who in highest heaven is to be matched with Jehovah,
to be compared to Jehovah among the sons of deities?
7 A fearful Deity in the council of the holy ones,
great and terrible over all who are around him.
8 Jehovah, God of Armies, who is like you?
sturdy is Jehovah; and your faithfulness is around you.
9 You rule over the pride of the sea;
when its waves toss you still them.
10 You felled Rahab as if he were stabbed through;
with your arm of might you dispersed your enemies.
11 Yours is sky, yours too is earth;
the world and all that fills it you founded.
12 North and south you created;
Tabor and Hermon warble your name.
13 Arm you have, and vigor withal;
your hand is strong, your right hand high.
14 Right dealing and just judgment are the base of your throne; friendship and loyalty come forward in your presence.
15 Happy the people that know resounding cheers of praise; they will walk in the shining of your face, Jehovah,
16 They will jubilate all day in your name
and exalt your right-doing,
17 Because you are the grandeur of their might
and by your acceptance you raise our horn aloft.
18 For to Jehovah belongs our shield
and to the Holy One of Israel our king.
19 You then spoke in a vision
to the man of your friendship and said
“I have laid help upon a champion,
have taken up a chosen one out of the people,
20 Have found my servant David,
have anointed him with my sacred oil,
21 With whom my hand shall be firm,
yes, my arm shall brace him.
22 No enemy shall hold him in peonage
nor man of foul play grind him down,
23 But I will pound up his foes before him
and defeat those who hate him,
24 And he shall have with him my faithfulness and friendship,
and by my name he shall carry his horn high,
25 And I will lay his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.
26 He shall call to me ‘You are my Father,
my Deity and the Rock of my salvation’;
27 I withal will make him my firstborn,
on high over the kings of earth.
28 I will keep my friendship to him forever
and my covenant to him shall be loyal,
29 And I will make his posterity last for aye
and his throne like the time of the sky.
30 If his sons abandon my instructions
and do not go by my laws,
31 If they disregard my rules
and do not keep my commandments,
32 I will punish their crime with a cudgel
and their guilt with blows,
33 But not cancel my friendship with him
nor forswear my faithfulness.
34 I will not disregard my covenant
nor change what has gone out of my lips.
35 One thing I have sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to David,
36 His posterity shall be forever
and his throne like the sun before me,
38 But you have repudiated and rejected,
been infuriated with your anointed one,
39 Ignored the covenant with your servant,
dropped his diadem desecrated on the ground,
40 Breached all his fences,
laid his fortifications in ruin.
41 All passersby pillage him;
he has become a butt for his neighbors’ insults.
42 You let his foes’ right hand go high,
you gladden all his enemies.
43 You turn back his sword-blade too,
and do not let him stand up in battle.
44 You have made an end of his brightness,
hurled his throne to the ground,
45 Shortened his time of youth,
wrapped him in shame. (Selah)
46 How long, Jehovah, will you persistently veil yourself,
shall your choler burn like a fire?
47 Remember, Lord, what vitality is,
in what unsubstantiality you created all mankind;
48 What man is to live and never see death,
get his life clear of the grasp of the grave? (Selah)
49 Where are your first acts of friendship, Lord?
You swore to David by your faithfulness!
50 Remember, Lord, the insults to your servant,
my pocketing all animosities from peoples,
51 How your enemies have been insulting, Jehovah,
been throwing insults at your anointed one’s heels.
52 Blessed be Jehovah forever.
Amen and amen.
(A prayer; of Moses the man of God.)
90 Lord, you have been citadel of ours
in generation upon generation.
2 Before mountains were born
or earth and universe came to the pangs of birth,
And from eternity to eternity,
you are Deity.
3 You send a man back into the clods
and say “Back again, sons of mankind!”
4 (For a thousand years are to your eyes
like a yesterday when it is going by
or a watch in the night.)
5 You wash them away; they are sleep.
In the morning they make a fresh start like grass;
6 In the morning it is blooming and fresh;
at evening it is wilted and dried out.
7 For we are all gone at your anger,
and we are struck with sudden death at your ire.
8 You have set our offenses where they confront you,
in the illumination of your face what we had kept dark.
9 For all our days shrink back at your wrath,
we finish off our years like a sigh.
10 The time we do our sleeping in is seventy years
or, with a strong constitution, eighty years,
And its swaggering is fuss and futility,
for it goes by in a rush and we take wing.
11 Who knows the formidableness of your anger,
and who has seen the oppressiveness of your wrath?
12 To count off our days teach us aright,
that we may get a heart of wisdom in.
13 Come back, Jehovah—when?
and change your mind as to your servants.
14 Give us your friendship amply in the morning,
so that we may carol and make merry throughout our days.
15 Give us as many days of gladness as you have given of hardship,
as many years as we have been seeing disaster.
16 Let your activity be apparent toward your servants
and your grandeur over their sons,
17 And may the graciousness of the Lord our God be over us;
and give firmness to the work of our hands.
91 One who lives under the Most High’s screen,
lodges under Shaddai’s canopy,
2 Who calls Jehovah “my refuge and fastness,
my God in whom I trust”—
3 For he will deliver you from fowler’s trap,
from threats of malice;
4 He will overarch you with his pinions
and under his wings you shall take refuge;
great shield and castle is his loyalty.
5 You shall not fear nighttime horror,
arrow flying by day,
6 Pestilence walking in murky blackness,
fatality making havoc at noon;
7 A thousand shall fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
but it shall not come up to you;
8 You shall only look on with your eyes
and see the retribution of wrong-doers,
9 Because you have Jehovah for your refuge,
have made the Most High your citadel.
10 No harm will come upon you
nor blight draw near your home,
11 Because he will give his angels orders for you,
to guard you in all your courses;
12 They shall take you up in their hands
to keep you from stubbing your toe on a stone.
13 You shall tread on lion and viper,
trample down two-year-old lion and reptile.
14 Because he is in love with me I will see him through,
will set him out of reach of harm because he knows my name.
15 He shall call on me and I will answer him;
I am with him in distress,
I will rescue him and show him honor.
16 Of long life I will give him his fill,
and will let him feast his eyes on my salvation.
(A psalm; a sabbath-day song.)
92 It is good to give thanks to Jehovah
and make music to your name, Most High,
2 To tell your friendship in the morning
and your faithfulness in the nights
3 With ten-string and with harp,
with harmony on a lyre,
4 Because you have gladdened me, Jehovah, by what you have done; over the works of your hands I carol.
5 How great are your works, Jehovah!
very deep are your thoughts.
6 A stupid man will not know,
nor a fool see into this:
7 When wrong-doers burgeon like weeds
and all villains bloom
It is so that they may be rooted out once for all;
8 but you are enthroned aloft forever, Jehovah.
9 For there do your enemies, Jehovah,
there do your enemies perish;
all villains are splintered apart;
10 And you have given me a high horn like a ure’s,
have bedewed me with fresh oil,
11 And caused my eyes to look on at the fate of my ill-wishers,
my ears to hear of the fate of those who stood up against me.
12 A right-doer will bud like a palm tree,
grow tall like a cedar on the Lebanon;
13 Set out at Jehovah’s house,
they will grow full of branches in the courts of our God,
14 Will be still fruitful in old age,
will be lush and verdant,
15 Announcing that straightforward is Jehovah,
my Rock, and there is no cheating about him.
93 Jehovah is king; Jehovah has put on,
has put on majesty, has belted himself with might,
has established the world too, not to be disturbed.
2 Your throne is firm since ancient times;
your being is from eternity.
5 Your lessons are most trustworthy;
its holiness is glory for your house,
Jehovah, for the length of time.
94 Deity of vengeance, Jehovah,
Deity of vengeance, beam out!
2 Uplift yourself, Judge of the earth,
send back retribution upon proud men.
3 How long shall wrong-doers, Jehovah,
how long shall wrong-doers jubilate?
4 They stream out arrogant talk,
and villains have plenty to say,
5 They beat down your people, Jehovah,
and wear down your estate,
6 Kill widow and immigrant
and murder orphans;
7 And they think “Jehovah does not see
and the Holy One of Israel does not take it in.”
8 Take this in, stupid ones among the people;
and you fools, when will you be sensible?
9 Is he who planted ears not to hear
and he who shaped eyes not to take a look?
10 Is the instructor of nations to do no correcting,
he who teaches man to know?
11 Jehovah knows man’s thoughts,
how windy they are.
12 Happy the man whom you discipline, Jehovah,
and teach out of your code,
13 To give him quietness out of days of evil
till a pitfall is dug for the wrong-doer;
14 For Jehovah will not abandon his people
nor forsake his estate.
15 For judgment will come back to doing the right,
and this will all the honest-hearted follow.
16 Who will stand up for me against evil-doers,
who take his stand for me against perpetrators of villainy?
17 If Jehovah had not been a help to me
my soul was almost finding its dwelling in the land of silence.
18 If I think my foot is slipping
your friendship, Jehovah, steadies me.
19 When I have in my bosom many cogitations
your comforts afford me pleasure.
20 Is a throne of malignity associated with you,
one that frames mischief into a rule of law?
21 They raid a right-doer’s life
and condemn innocent blood.
22 But Jehovah has been a fastness to me
and my God my rock of refuge,
23 And has turned their villainy back upon themselves,
and will annihilate them in their wickedness;
our God Jehovah will annihilate them.
95 Come, let us shout for Jehovah,
raise a cheer for our Rock of salvation,
2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving,
raise a cheer for him with music,
3 Because Jehovah is a great Deity
and a great King over all gods,
4 He in whose hand are the most secluded parts of earth,
and the peaks of mountains are his;
5 He to whom the sea belongs, and who made it,
and whose hands formed dry land.
6 Come in, let us bow low and do reverence,
let us kneel before our maker Jehovah,
7 Because he is our God
and we are the people he pastures
and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you will obey him,
8 Do not stiffen your hearts as at Meribah,
as on the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tried me out,
tested me and saw what I did.
10 Forty years I felt the loathsomeness of that generation
and said “They are a people of erring hearts,
not knowing my courses,”
11 So that I swore in my anger
they should not come into my rest.
96 Sing a new song for Jehovah;
sing for Jehovah, all the earth!
2 Sing for Jehovah, bless his name,
tell the good news of his salvation day after day,
3 Tell the tale of his glory among the nations,
among all the peoples his wondrous feats,
4 Because Jehovah is great and high-praised;
he is terrible over all gods,
5 For all the peoples’ gods are trumperies,
but Jehovah made the skies.
6 Majesty and splendor are before him,
might and magnificence in his sanctuary.
7 Give to Jehovah, clans of peoples,
give to Jehovah glory and might!
8 Give to Jehovah the glory that belongs to his name;
carry an offering and come into his courts.
9 Do reverence to Jehovah in stately sacred garb;
tremble before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the nations “Jehovah is king,
has established the world too, not to be disturbed,
will give fair verdicts for peoples.”
11 Let the heavens be glad and the earth jubilant,
let the sea and what fills it thunder,
12 Let fields and everything in them exult,
then let all trees on the rocks shout,
13 Before Jehovah, because he has come,
because he has come to judge the earth!
He will judge the world aright
and peoples faithfully.
97 Jehovah is king! let the earth be jubilant,
many coasts be glad!
2 Clouds and thick air are around him,
right and justice are the base of his throne.
3 A fire goes before him
and burns off his foes on every side.
4 His lightnings light up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
5 Mountains melt down like wax
before Jehovah, before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The sky tells his right-doing,
and all the peoples see his glory.
7 All statue-worshipers shall be put to shame,
those who glory in trumpery deities;
do reverence to him, all gods!
9 Because you, Jehovah, are on high over all the earth,
high far above all gods.
10 Jehovah loves those who hate evil,
guards the lives of the men of his friendship,
delivers them from the hands of wrong-doers.
11 Light rises for the right-doer
and gladness for men of honest heart.
12 Be glad in Jehovah, right-doers,
and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
(A psalm.)
98 Sing a new song for Jehovah,
for he has done wondrous things;
His right hand and his holy arm
have brought his salvation.
2 Jehovah has made his salvation known,
unveiled his right-doing before the eyes of the nations.
3 He has remembered his friendship and faithfulness to Israel’s house;
all earth’s extremities have seen our God’s salvation.
4 Raise cheers for Jehovah, all the earth,
break out and shout and make music;
5 Make music for Jehovah with lyre,
with lyre and sound of minstrelsy;
6 With trumpets and sound of ram-horn
give ringing blasts before the King, Jehovah!
7 Let the sea and what fills it thunder,
the world and its inhabitants,
8 Let rivers clap their hands,
mountains shout together,
9 Before Jehovah, because he has come to judge the earth;
he will judge the world aright
and peoples uprightly.
99 Jehovah is king! let peoples quake!
he is enthroned on cherubs; let the earth swing!
2 Jehovah is great in Sion,
and lofty is he over all the peoples.
3 Let them praise your name as great and terrible.
Holy is he.
4 And royal might loves justice;
you have set uprightness firm;
you have done the just and right thing by Jacob.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests
and Samuel among those who call on his name
Called to Jehovah and he answered them;
7 in a pillar of cloud he spoke to them;
They heard his lessons, and an institution he gave them.
8 Jehovah, our God, you did answer them,
You were to them a pardoning Deity
and one who took vengeance for their misbehavior.
(A psalm for thanksgiving.)
100 Raise cheers for Jehovah, all the land,
2 worship Jehovah with gaiety,
come in before him with shouting;
5 Because good is Jehovah;
his friendship is forever
and his faithfulness to generation after generation.
(Of David’s; a psalm.)
101 Friendliness and justice I sing;
to you, Jehovah, I make music.
2 I will consider a faultless course;
when will you come to me?
I will walk with a steady heart
within my house.
3 I will not lay a base proposition
under my eyes.
Doing unprincipled things I hate,
it shall not be my habit.
4 A crooked heart I will eschew,
will have no knowledge of evil.
5 One who covertly defames another
I will annihilate.
A man of lofty eyes and domineering heart
I will not stand.
6 I will have my eyes out for earth’s reliable men
to live with me.
One who walks a faultless course,
he shall serve me.
7 One who practices fraud shall not have
a seat inside my house.
A liar shall not hold
a footing under my eyes.
8 Morning by morning I will annihilate
all earth’s wrong-doers,
Exterminating from Jehovah’s city
all who commit villainy.
(Prayer of a man in misery when he is fainting away and pours out his complaint before Jehovah.)
102 Jehovah, hear my prayer
and let my clamor come in to you.
2 Do not veil your face from me on the day I am in distress;
bend your ear to me;
on the day when I call answer me speedily;
3 For my days have gone off in smoke
and my bones are charring like fuel.
4 My heart is slashed down and dried out like weeds,
for I have forgotten eating my food.
5 By the sound of my moaning
my bones stick to my flesh.
6 I am like a wilderness barn-owl,
I am the same as little owls in wasted sites.
7 I am watchful and uneasy
like a bird alone on a roof.
8 All day my enemies taunt me,
those who go wild against me make an oath of me,
9 Because I have been eating ashes like bread
and mixing my gulps of drink with weeping
10 Because of your hostility and wrath,
because you have taken me up and thrown me down.
11 My days stoop like a shadow
and I dry out like weeds.
12 But you, Jehovah, are enthroned forever,
and the remembrance of you is for generation after generation.
13 You will stand up and take pity on Sion
when it is time to be gracious to her, when a date comes,
14 Because your servants value her stones
and have a regard for her earth,
15 That nations may fear Jehovah’s name
and all the kings on earth your glory
16 Because Jehovah has rebuilt Sion,
has appeared in his glory,
17 Has turned toward the prayer of the destitute
and not despised their prayer.
18 This shall be written down for a later generation,
and a people that is to be created shall praise Jehovah
19 Because he has looked out from his holy place aloft,
Jehovah from heaven has looked at earth,
20 Hearing a prisoner’s groans,
unchaining men sentenced to death,
21 That Jehovah’s fame may be told of in Sion
and his praise at Jerusalem
22 When peoples gather together,
and kingdoms, to worship Jehovah.
23 He has worn down my strength on the road,
has shortened my days;
24 I say “My God, do not lift me away at half my days;
your years are through a generation of generations.
25 You laid earth’s foundations before,
and heaven is the work of your hands;
26 They will perish, but you will stand;
and they will all wear out like a garment,
Like a dress you will change them and changed they will be,
27 but you are yourself and there will be no end of your years.
28 Your worshipers’ sons shall live in their homes,
and their descendants shall stand fast before you.”
(Of David’s.)
103 Bless Jehovah, my soul;
all my being, through and through, bless his holy name!
2 Bless Jehovah, my soul,
and do not forget all he has done for you,
3 He who forgives all your guilt,
who cures all your diseases,
4 Who protects your life from being swallowed up in the depths below,
who crowns you with his friendship and sympathy,
5 Who satisfies your lifetime with good things,
letting you renew your youth like the great vulture.
6 Jehovah does things that are right,
and acts of justice for those to whom it is denied.
7 He makes his courses known to Moses,
his doings to the sons of Israel.
8 Tenderhearted and kindly is Jehovah,
patient and very friendly.
9 He will not keep up a contention permanently
nor lay up a score forever.
10 He has not done to us things to match our sins
nor treated us in accordance with our guilt,
11 For like the height of sky over earth
is the transcendence of his friendship over those who fear him.
12 As far away as east from west
has he put our crimes from us.
13 Like a father’s tenderness for sons
is Jehovah’s for those who fear him,
14 Because he knows our structure,
remembers that we are clay.
15 Man’s lifetime is like that of grass;
like field flowers, so does he bloom;
16 For a wind passes through and he is not there,
and his place is no longer aware of him.
17 But Jehovah’s friendship is from eternity to eternity over those who fear him,
and his fair dealing to sons of sons,
18 To those who keep his covenant
and who remember his mandates, living up to them.
19 Jehovah has set his throne fast in the heavens,
and his kingdom rules everything.
20 Bless Jehovah, you angels of his, formidable in strength, doers of his bidding, obeyers of his word!
21 Bless Jehovah, all you legions of his,
servitors of his, doers of his pleasure!
104 Bless Jehovah, my soul!
Jehovah, my God, you are great indeed;
in majesty and splendor you are robed,
2 You who wrap light about you like a cloak,
who stretch sky like a curtain;
4 Who make winds your messengers,
blazing fires your servitors;
5 Who set earth on its foundations,
nevermore to be unsettled,
6 Covered it with the deep as if with a robe,
water standing above mountains—
7 At your rebuke the water takes flight,
at the sound of your thunder it makes off in haste,
8 Mountains come up, vales go down
to the place you have founded for them,
9 You have fixed a boundary it is not to cross,
not to come back to cover the earth;
10 You who let out springs in the arroyos
to run between mountains,
11 To water all beasts of the wilds,
for wild asses to slake their thirst,
12 For birds of the air to perch over,
sounding their notes amid the leaves;
13 You who water mountains out of your lofts
so that the earth has its fill of the fruit of your work,
14 Who make grass grow for the cattle
and vegetation for man’s labor,
Bringing out bread from the earth
15 and letting wine make a man’s heart merry,
Brightening faces with oil
and letting bread brace a man up,
16 Letting wild trees have their fill,
cedars of Lebanon that you planted,
17 Where birds nest,
storks have their homes in their tops,
18 Ibexes have highest mountains,
dassies have crags for a refuge;
19 Who have made a moon to mark dates,
a sun that knows its setting;
20 You cause darkness, and there is night,
in which all creatures of the bush steal about,
21 The two-year-old lions roar for prey
and to seek their food from Deity;
22 The sun rises, they take cover
and lie down in their dens,
23 Man goes out to his activities
and to his labors till evening.
24 How manifold are your works, Jehovah,
all of which you have made with wisdom!
the earth is filled with your creations.
25 Here is the sea, great and wide,
and in it numberless forms of moving life,
tiny animals with great ones;
26 Ships travel there;
Leviathan, that you formed to play in it.
27 They all rely on you, Jehovah,
to give their food at the due time.
28 You give to them, they pick up;
you open your hand, they have their fill of good things;
29 You veil your face, they are struck with sudden death;
you take up their spirits, they expire
and go back to their clay.
30 You loose your spirit, they are created
and you make new the surface of the soil.
31 May Jehovah’s glory be forever,
may Jehovah be gladdened in his works,
32 He who looks at the earth and it shivers,
touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing for Jehovah while I live,
make music for my God while I exist.
34 May my meditations be sweet to him;
may I be glad in Jehovah.
35 May sinners come to an end out of the earth
and wrong-doers no longer exist.
Bless Jehovah, my soul!
2 Sing for him, make music for him,
review all his wonders,
3 Boast of his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek Jehovah be glad.
4 Look to Jehovah and his strength;
always be looking for his face.
5 Remember his wonders that he has done,
his miracles and the judgments of his mouth,
6 You descendants of his servant Abraham,
sons of his chosen one Jacob.
7 He is our God Jehovah,
his judgments run throughout the earth.
8 Forever he remembers his covenant,
a word that he has ordained for a thousand years,
9 Which he undertook with Abraham,
and Isaac had his oath,
10 And he confirmed it to be a decree for Jacob,
a perpetual covenant for Israel,
11 “To you I will give Canaan
as your definite estate,”
12 When they were few in number,
a mere handful, and immigrants in it,
13 And going about from nation to nation,
from a kingdom to another people.
14 He did not let men deny them justice,
but reproved kings on their account,
15 “Do not touch my anointed ones
nor harm my prophets.”
16 And he called down a famine upon the country,
broke every bread-stock;
17 He sent a man before them;
Joseph was sold for a slave;
18 They hobbled his feet with shackles,
his life was locked in iron,
19 Till the time when his word came true,
Jehovah’s say showed his metal,
20 A king sent and undid him,
a ruler of peoples and released him,
21 Appointed him lord of his household,
ruler over all his means,
22 To dictate to his generals at will
and tutor his statesmen;
23 And Israel came into Egypt
and Jacob lived as an immigrant in the country of Ham,
24 And he made his people very prolific
and they outmultiplied their foes.
25 He turned their hearts to hate his people,
to plot against his servants;
26 He sent his servant Moses,
Aaron whom he chose;
27 They set out the words of his tokens among them,
and miracles in the country of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and dark it grew;
and they did not disobey his words.
29 He turned their water to blood
and brought their fishes to death.
30 Their country swarmed with frogs
in the chambers of their kings.
31 He gave the word, and ʽarob flies came in;
mosquitoes, in all their territory.
32 He let their showers be hail,
flaming fire in their country,
33 And struck down their grapevine and fig-tree
and smashed the trees of their territory.
34 He gave the word, and grasshoppers came,
locusts innumerable,
35 And ate off all plant life in their country
and ate off the fruit of their soil.
36 And he struck down every eldest son in their country,
firstfruits of all their powers.
37 And he brought them out with silver and gold,
with no one among his tribes stumbling;
38 Egypt was glad of their going out,
because the dread of them had fallen upon them.
39 He spread out a cloud for a screen
and a fire to give light at night;
40 They asked, and he brought quails
and gave them full meals of sky-bread;
41 He opened a rock and water gushed out,
a river ran in the parched wastes;
42 Because he remembered his holy word
with his servant Abraham.
43 And he brought his people out with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with shouting,
44 And gave them nations’ lands,
and they took possession of what folk upon folk had toiled for,
45 To the end that they might observe his institutions
and keep the rules of his code.
Praise Jehovah!
2 Who shall put Jehovah’s feats into words,
voice all his praise?
3 Happy are those who observe laws,
who do what is right at every time.
4 Remember me, Jehovah, in the favor you show to your people, take care of me in your salvation,
5 For me to have the sight of the good your chosen ones get,
to be glad in the gladness of your nation,
to make my boast with your estate.
6 We have sinned with our fathers,
have done perversely, wrongly.
7 Our fathers in Egypt
did not appreciate your wonders,
Did not remember how many your acts of friendship had been,
and disobeyed the Most High at the Red Sea.
8 But he saved them for the honor of his name,
to make known his prowess,
9 And rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried off,
and he marched them through the deeps as if through the wilderness,
10 And saved them out of the hands of one who hated them,
and reclaimed them out of an enemy’s hand,
11 And water covered their foes,
not one of them was left;
12 And they believed his words
and sang his praise.
13 They were quick to forget his works,
would not wait for his plan,
14 But gave way to a craving in the wilderness
and put Deity on trial in desert land;
15 And he gave them what they asked
but sent sickness into their systems.
16 And they grew jealous of Moses in the camp,
of Aaron, the one holy to Jehovah;
17 Earth opened and swallowed Dathan
and covered Abiram’s company,
18 And a fire broke out in their company,
flame set wrong-doers ablaze.
19 They made a calf at Horeb
and did reverence to a bronze statue,
20 And changed their glory
for a figure of a grass-eating bull;
21 They forgot the Deity who had saved them,
had done great things in Egypt,
22 Wonderful things in the country of Ham,
terrible things at the Red Sea.
23 And he thought of exterminating them,
had it not been that Moses his chosen one
Stood in the breach before him
to turn back his ire from working ruin.
24 And they refused a delectable country,
would not believe his word
25 But found fault in their tents,
did not obey Jehovah,
26 And he pledged himself against them
to have them fall in the wilderness
27 And to scatter their descendants among the nations
and disperse them through the countries.
28 And they fraternized with the Baal of Peghor
and ate sacrifices to dead things,
29 And gave provocation by their misbehavior,
and a plague broke out among them;
30 Pinehas stood firm and intervened,
and the plague was checked,
31 And it was credited to him for righteousness
generation upon generation forever.
32 And they gave offense at Meribah Water,
and Moses came to grief on their account
33 Because they had embittered his spirit
and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.
34 They did not exterminate the peoples
that Jehovah had told them to,
35 But mixed with the heathen
and learned their doings
36 And worshiped their idols,
and it became a snare for them,
37 And they sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons,
38 And shed innocent blood,
the blood of their children
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the country was polluted with blood,
39 And they became unclean in their actions
and unchaste in their behavior;
40 And Jehovah grew angry at his people
and came to abhor his estate,
41 And gave them into the hands of heathens,
and those who hated them ruled them,
42 And their enemies oppressed them
and they were humbled under their hands.
43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were disobedient in their conduct
and moldered down in their guilt.
44 And he saw what distress they were in
as he heard their appeal,
45 And remembered for them his covenant,
changed his mind in accordance with the greatness of his friendship,
46 And made them objects of sympathy
to all their captors.
47 Save us, Jehovah, our God,
and gather us out of the nations
To give thanks to your holy name,
to glory in your praise.
2 Let Jehovah’s rescued men say it,
those whom he has rescued from the hands of a foe
4 Those who were wandering in the wilderness, in desert land, found no road to a city of homes,
5 Hungry, thirsty too,
their souls in them fainting away,
6 But they cried out to Jehovah in their distress
and he delivered them out of their hardships,
7 And set them on a straight course
to go to a city of homes,
8 Let them thank Jehovah for his friendship
and his wonderful deeds for mankind.
9 For he gives satisfaction to a hankering soul,
and a hungry soul he fills with good things.
10 Those who were sitting in darkness and gloom,
locked in misery and in irons,
11 Because they had disobeyed Deity’s word
and despised the Most High’s advice
12 And he had humbled their hearts with trouble,
they had stumbled and there was no helper,
13 But they cried out to Jehovah in their distress
and he saves them out of their hardships,
14 Brings them out of darkness and gloom
and breaks their chains,
15 Let them thank Jehovah for his friendship
and his wonderful deeds for mankind.
16 For he smashes bronze doors
and chops through iron bars.
17 Those who were sick because of their criminal course
and in misery because of their guilt,
18 Their appetites abhorring any food
and they nearing the gates of death,
19 But they cried to Jehovah in their distress
and he saves them out of their hardships,
20 Sends his word and cures them
and brings them clear of their blights,
21 Let them thank Jehovah for his friendship
and his wonderful deeds for mankind
22 And sacrifice thank-offerings
and shout the story of his deeds.
23 Those who have gone to sea in ships,
done business on a great water,
24 They have seen Jehovah’s work
and his wonders on the deep.
25 He spoke the word and a wind rose,
a tempest that drove its waves high;
26 They go up to the sky, down to the depths,
their souls rocking with disaster,
27 They dance and stagger like a drunken man
and all their skill is at a loss.
28 But they have cried out to Jehovah in their distress
and he brings them out of their hardships,
29 Turns a tempest to a hush;
and the waves of the sea became still,
30 And they were glad that it calmed down;
and he guided them to the port they wanted to reach.
31 Let them thank Jehovah for his friendship
and his wonderful deeds for mankind
32 And exalt him where a people is assembled
and praise him where elders sit.
33 He makes rivers into a wilderness
and fountainheads of water into a thirsty spot,
34 A fruitful country into alkali soil,
for the wickedness of those who live in it.
35 He makes a wilderness into pools of water
and an arid country into fountainheads of water
36 And settles hungry people there,
and they establish a city of homes
37 And sow fields and set out vineyards
and are fruitful in produce,
38 And he blesses them, and they grow very numerous,
and their cattle he does not make few.
39 And if they have become few and low
by pressure of disaster and sorrow,
40 He pours contempt on nobles
and sets them wandering in pathless nothingness,
41 But he uplifts a needy man out of misery
and makes him into clans numerous as the sheep.
42 Upright men will see it and be glad,
and all foul play shuts its mouth.
43 Whoever is wise, let him watch these things,
and let them discern Jehovah’s deeds of friendliness.
(A song; a psalm of David’s.)
108 My heart is firm, God;
I will sing and give praise.
2 Wake, my glory! wake, harp and lyre!
I will wake the dawn.
3 I will give you thanks among the nations, Jehovah,
I will make music among many a folk,
4 Because your friendliness is great to the skies
and your loyalty to the uppermost air.
5 Abide aloft, God, above the sky,
your glory above all the earth.
6 So that your darlings may be delivered
save with your right hand and answer us.
10 Who will bring me to a city for a siege?
who has led me through to Edom?
11 Have not you, God, repudiated us?
and you do not go out, God, in our campaigns.
12 Give us help from a foe—
human salvation is futile.
13 Through God we shall play a sturdy part,
and he himself will trample down our foes.
(Of the Director; of David’s; a psalm.)
109 God of my praise, do not be deaf,
2 For they have opened against me mouths of wrong and of treachery
and spoken with me with tongues of falsehood
3 And encircled me with words of hatred
and made war on me for nothing;
4 In return for my love they are adversaries to me;
but on my part prayer.
5 And they have turned upon me evil in return for good
and hatred in return for my love.
6 Give a wrong-doer authority over him
and let an adversary stand at his right hand!
7 When he goes into court let him come out in the wrong,
and let his prayer become sin!
8 Be his days few!
let another take his station!
9 Be his sons orphans
and his wife a widow,
10 And may his sons live as vagabonds and beg their bread
and go out soliciting from the wasted sites they lodge in!
11 May a creditor bag everything he has,
and strangers plunder the fruit of his toil!
12 May he have nobody that keeps up friendship,
and his orphans nobody that shows them goodwill!
13 May his posterity come to extinction,
their name be obliterated in another generation!
14 May Jehovah be reminded of his fathers’ guilt,
his mother’s sin not be obliterated,
15 May they be always present to Jehovah
and may he cut off their memory forever,
16 Since he did not remember to show friendship
but hunted down a man wretched and needy
and wounded to the heart, to give him his deathblow,
17 And loved a curse—so may it come upon him!
and had no liking for a blessing—so may it be far from him!
18 And wore curses like his coat—
so may they come into his inward parts like water
and into his bones like oil,
19 Be to him like the clothing he is wrapped in
and become the girdle he is always belted with!
20 These are the earnings due from Jehovah to those who are hostile to me
and to those who are talking up evil against my life.
21 But do you, Jehovah, my Lord,
take action on my side for the honor of your name,
deliver me because your friendship is so good,
22 Because I am wretched and needy
and my heart is stabbed within me.
23 I am gone like a lengthening shadow,
tumbled out like grasshoppers.
24 My knees are giving way from fasting
and my flesh has grown lean without oil,
25 And I have become a butt for their taunts,
they see me and shake their heads.
26 Help me, Jehovah, my God,
save me as befits your friendship,
27 That they may know that this is your hand,
it is you, Jehovah, that did it.
28 Let them curse while you bless;
let those who stand up against me be disappointed
and your servant make merry.
29 Let those who are hostile to me be clothed in humiliation
and wrapped in their shame as in a robe.
30 I will speak out great thanks to Jehovah
and praise him in the midst of many
31 Because he stands at a needy man’s right hand
to save him from those who would judge him for life or death.
(Of David’s; a psalm.)
110 Quoth Jehovah to my lord “Sit at my right hand
till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”
2 Jehovah will send your strong staff out from Sion.
Hold sway amid your enemies!
3 Your people come in willingly on your day of effort;
on sacred mountains, from the womb of dawn,
you have your dew of youth.
4 Jehovah has sworn, and will not revoke it,
“You are priest forever on Malkisedek’s terms”;
5 The Lord is at your right hand.
He has shattered kings on his day of anger;
6 He will give judgment among the nations;
he has filled with bodies,
has shattered heads over a great country.
7 He will drink from an arroyo on the road;
therefore he will lift up his head.
111 Praise Jehovah!
I will acknowledge Jehovah with entire heart
in a council and company of upright men.
2 Great are Jehovah’s works,
to be studied for all their charms.
3 What he has done is majesty and splendor,
and his right-doing stands forevermore.
4 He did memorable wonders;
kindly and tenderhearted is Jehovah.
5 He gave provisions to those who feared him,
forever remembering his covenant.
6 He acquainted his people with the powerfulness of his workings,
giving them the estate of nations.
7 The works of his hands are loyalty and justice;
all his mandates are trustworthy,
8 Anchored forever and evermore,
done in truth and rectitude.
10 To fear Jehovah is the first thing in wisdom,
good sense of all who exercise it;
his praise stands forevermore.
2 Eminent in the country shall his descendants be;
a generation of upright men will be blessed.
3 In his house are resources and riches,
and his rightness stands forevermore.
4 Light comes up in darkness for upright men;
kindly and tenderhearted is a right-doer.
5 Good is a man who shows kindness and lends,
keeps up his business in justice.
6 For he will be unshaken forever;
an honest man will become an everlasting memory.
7 He will not be afraid at a report of disaster;
his heart stands firm, trusting in Jehovah.
8 His heart is anchored; he will not be afraid
till he gloats over his foes.
9 He has scattered, has given to the needy;
his right-doing stands forevermore;
his horn is carried high in honor.
10 A wrong-doer will see and be vexed,
will grind his teeth and melt down;
wrong-doers’ cravings will perish.
2 Be Jehovah’s name blessed
from now to eternity!
3 From sunrise land to sunset
Jehovah’s name is to be praised.
4 Aloft over all nations is Jehovah;
above the sky is his glory.
5 Who is the like of our God Jehovah,
6 seated high, seeing low,
in heaven and on earth;
7 Lifting the poor man from the dust,
raising the needy man from the rubbish-dump,
8 To seat him with nobles,
with the nobles of his people;
9 Making a barren woman
a homemaker, a happy mother?
2 Judah became sacred to him,
Israel his dominions.
3 The sea saw and took flight,
the Jordan turned round backward,
4 The mountains leaped like rams,
hills like sons of the flocks.
5 What happened to you, sea, that you should take flight?
Jordan, that you should turn round backward?
6 That you should leap like rams, mountains,
like sons of the flocks, hills?
7 Quiver, earth, before a Lord,
before Jacob’s God,
8 Who turns the rock to a pool of water,
a block of pyrite to a fountainhead of water.
2 Why should the nations say
“Where is their god?”
3 But our God is in heaven;
he has done everything that he pleased to.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
work of human hands.
5 They have mouths and do not speak,
they have eyes and do not see,
6 They have ears and do not hear,
they have noses and do not smell,
7 Their hands, they do not handle;
their feet, they do not walk;
they do not whisper with their throats.
8 Like them be their makers,
everybody that trusts to them!
9 Israel trusts to Jehovah;
he is their help and shield.
10 The house of Aaron trusts to Jehovah;
he is their help and shield.
11 Those who fear Jehovah trust to Jehovah;
he is their help and shield.
13 Will bless those who fear Jehovah,
the smallest with the greatest.
14 Jehovah add more to you,
to you and to your sons!
15 Blessed be you of Jehovah,
Maker of heavens and earth!
16 The heavens are Jehovah’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to mankind.
17 The dead will not praise Jehovah,
nor any who go down into silence;
116 I love Jehovah, because he hears
my suppliant voice,
2 Because he has bent his ear to me,
and through my lifetime I will call.
3 The cords of death have enclosed me
and the grip of the grave has caught me;
I encounter distress and sorrow;
4 But on Jehovah’s name I call:
ah, Jehovah, bring my life through.
5 Kind is Jehovah, and true to the right,
and our God is tenderhearted.
6 Jehovah watches over simple people;
I was poor, and me he saves.
7 Come back to your resting, my soul,
because Jehovah has done you a good turn.
8 For you have rescued my life from death,
my eyes from tears, and my feet from losing their hold;
9 I am walking before Jehovah
in the lands of the living.
10 I believe while I speak;
I have had a very hard time,
11 I have thought in my alarm
“All men are shamming”;
12 What return shall I make to Jehovah
for all his dealings with me?
13 I will lift a cup of salvation
and proclaim Jehovah’s name,
14 Will discharge my vows to Jehovah
in the presence of all his people.
15 Death for the men of his friendship
is a serious matter in Jehovah’s view.
16 Ah, Jehovah, for I am your servant,
I am your servant, your bondwoman’s son,
you have unfastened my fetters.
17 To you I will sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving
and proclaim Jehovah’s name,
18 Will discharge my vows to Jehovah
in the presence of all his people,
19 In the courts of Jehovah’s house,
within you, Jerusalem.
118 Give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good,
because his friendship lasts forever.
2 Let Israel say
that his friendship lasts forever.
3 Let Aaron’s family say
that his friendship lasts forever.
4 Let those who fear Jehovah say
that his friendship lasts forever.
5 I called to Jehovah out of a tight pinch,
Jehovah answered me in free range.
6 I have Jehovah for me; I will not be afraid;
what is man to do to me?
7 I have Jehovah for me among my helpers,
and I shall gloat over my haters.
8 Better to take refuge in Jehovah
than to put confidence in man.
9 Better to take refuge in Jehovah
than to put confidence in princes.
10 All nations have surrounded me—
in Jehovah’s name I will stand them off.
11 Surrounded me they have, yes, surrounded me—
in Jehovah’s name I will stand them off.
12 They have surrounded me like bees—
they have gone out like a thorn fire,
in Jehovah’s name I will stand them off.
13 You did give me a push to bring me down,
but Jehovah helped me.
14 My strength and hymn is Jehovah,
and he has been to me salvation;
15 In honest men’s tents there is a voice of shouting and victory:
Jehovah’s right hand has done sturdily!
16 Jehovah’s right hand was swung high!
Jehovah’s right hand did sturdily!
17 I shall not die but live
and tell the story of Jehovah’s deeds;
18 Jehovah did chastise me,
but did not give me up to death.
19 Open holy gates for me
to go in by them, to praise Jehovah.
20 This gate is Jehovah’s;
right-doers shall go in by it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me
and been to me salvation;
22 A stone that the builders had rejected
has become the head of a corner.
23 This was from Jehovah,
it is a wonder to our eyes.
24 This day Jehovah has made;
we will exult and make merry on it.
25 Ah, Jehovah, give victory!
ah, Jehovah, give success!
26 Blessed in Jehovah’s name be he who is coming in;
we bless you out of Jehovah’s house.
28 You are my Deity whom I thank,
my God whom I exalt.
29 Give thanks to Jehovah because he is good,
because his friendship lasts forever.
119 Happy are men of conscientious course,
those who go by Jehovah’s instructions.
2 Happy those who keep his lessons,
wholeheartedly resort to him.
3 Neither do they commit knavery;
they go by his courses.
4 It was you ordained your mandates,
well to be observed.
5 Would that my courses were steady
in observing your precepts!
6 I shall be then unashamed
when I look toward all your commandments.
7 I will give you thanks with straightforward heart
when I learn your righteous laws.
8 Your precepts I observe;
do not totally leave me.
9 By what is a young man to keep his path clean?
Watching it on the basis of your word.
10 Wholeheartedly I resort to you;
let me take no wrong step away from your commandments.
11 In my heart I have buried your behest,
so that I might not sin against you.
12 Blessed are you, Jehovah;
teach me your precepts.
13 With my lips I tell the story
of all the laws your mouth has given out.
14 In the course your lips teach I rejoice
as much as over any affluence.
15 In your mandates I study,
and eye your paths.
16 In your precepts I take my pleasure,
will not forget your word.
17 Do your servant a good turn;
let me live and observe your word.
18 Unblind my eyes and let me look
at mysteries out of your instructions.
19 A visitor on earth am I;
do not veil your commandments from me.
20 My soul wears away with wishing
toward your laws at every time.
21 You rebuke presumptuous men;
cursed are those who err from your commandments.
22 Roll off from me ignominy and contempt,
because I keep your lessons.
23 If even chieftains sat talking together against me
your servant would study in your precepts.
24 Your lessons are withal
my pleasure, my advisers.
25 Flat on the ground lies my soul;
give me life in accordance with your word.
26 I told my story and you answered me;
teach me your precepts.
27 Give me insight into the course your mandates prescribe;
that I may study your mysteries.
28 My soul is dissolved in woe;
set me on my feet in accordance with your word.
29 Turn away from me the course of falsehood
and favor me with your instructions.
30 I choose the course of faithfulness,
I crave your laws.
31 I have adhered to your lessons;
Jehovah, do not disappoint me.
32 I will run the road of your commandments
because you have set my heart at ease.
33 Instruct me, Jehovah, in the course your precepts direct,
and I will keep it to the last.
34 Give me insight and I will keep your instructions
and observe them wholeheartedly.
35 Direct me along the path of your commandments;
for that is what I like.
36 Bend my heart toward your lessons
and not toward pelf.
37 Lead my eyes to go past sights of frivolity;
give me life by your word.
38 Make good to your servant
your promise for the fear of you.
39 Drive off my ignominy of which I stand in fear,
because your laws are good.
40 Here have I been wishing your mandates;
give me life in your fairness,
41 And let your acts of friendship come to me, Jehovah,
your salvation in accordance with your promise,
42 And let me give an answer to him who taunts me;
for I am confident in your word;
43 And do not utterly cut off out of my mouth the word of truth, because I have been waiting for your laws,
44 And I will observe your instructions always,
forever and evermore,
45 And walk a roomy road
because I have betaken myself to your mandates;
46 And I will talk of your lessons in the presence of kings
and never be ashamed,
47 And take my pleasure in your commandments
which I love,
48 And raise my hands to your commandments, which I love,
and study your precepts.
49 Remember for your servant your word,
forasmuch as you are letting me wait.
50 This is my comfort in my misfortune,
that your promise gives me life.
51 Presumptuous men have been very cynical to me—
I did not swerve from your instructions;
52 I remembered your judgments since olden times,
Jehovah, and took comfort.
53 I am seized with fever at wrong-doers
who forsake your instructions.
54 Your precepts have been music to me
in the house where I am on my visit.
55 I have remembered your name in the night, Jehovah,
and observed your instructions.
56 This has been mine,
that I have kept your mandates.
57 My portion is Jehovah;
I resolve to keep your word.
58 I entreat you, Jehovah, with all my heart,
be gracious to me according to your promise.
59 I thought over my courses
and turned my feet back to your lessons.
60 I hastened and did not delay
to observe your commandments.
61 Wrong-doers’ cords swing around me,
I do not forget your instructions.
62 At midnight I stand up to give you thanks
for your righteous judgments.
63 I am comrade of all who fear you,
observing your mandates.
64 The earth is full of your friendliness, Jehovah;
teach me your precepts.
65 You have done kindly by your servant,
Jehovah, in accordance with your word.
66 Teach me good sense and knowledge,
because I believe in your commandments.
67 Before I had my misfortunes I went wrong;
but now I observe your behest.
68 You are good and do the good;
teach me your precepts.
69 Presumptuous men have smeared lies over me;
I keep your mandates with all my heart.
70 Their hearts are fatty as tallow;
I take my pleasure in your instructions.
71 It was good for me that I had my misfortunes,
in order that I might learn your precepts.
72 The instructions of your mouth are a better thing for me
than thousands in gold and silver.
73 Your hands made me and organized me;
give me intelligence and I will learn your commandments.
74 Those who fear you see me and are glad,
because I wait for your word.
75 I know, Jehovah, that your judgments are right
and it was in faithfulness you sent me misfortune;
76 Let your friendship come to comfort me
in accordance with your promise to your servant;
77 Let your tenderness come in, that I may get well,
because your instructions are my pleasure.
78 Let presumptuous men be ashamed that they have circumvented me with falsehood;
I will study your mandates.
79 Those who fear you shall come back to me,
and those who know your lessons.
80 Be my heart faultless by your precepts,
so that I may not be put to shame.
81 My soul is spent with looking for your salvation;
I wait for your word.
82 My eyes are spent with looking for your promise,
thinking “How soon will you comfort me?”
83 Though I have become like a wineskin in a cloud of smoke,
I have not forgotten your precepts.
84 How long is your servant’s time?
how soon will you execute judgment on my persecutors?
85 Presumptuous men have dug pitfalls for me,
men who do not conform to your instructions.
86 All your commandments are faithful;
in falsehood they persecute me; help me.
87 They almost made an end of me on earth,
but I did not abandon your mandates.
88 As befits your friendship give me life,
and I will observe the lessons of your mouth.
89 Forever, Jehovah,
your word stands in heaven.
90 To generation after generation your faithfulness lasts;
you have set earth in order, and it stands.
91 For your laws they stand today;
for everything is in your service.
92 If your instructions had not been my pleasure,
then I should have perished in my misfortune.
93 Forever I will not forget your mandates,
because by them you have given me life.
94 Yours am I; save me,
because I have betaken myself to your mandates.
95 Wrong-doers have hoped to get me to destroy me;
I seek insight into your lessons.
96 Of every thoroughness I have seen an end;
your commandment goes far indeed.
97 How I love your instructions!
they are my study all day.
98 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,
for it is mine forever.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers
because I have your lessons as a study.
100 I am more sagacious than aged men
because I keep your mandates.
101 From every vicious road I have shut off my feet
in order to observe your word.
102 From your laws I have not turned off,
because you have instructed me.
103 How delicious to my palate are your behest and promise,
more so to my mouth than honey!
104 Out of your mandates I grow intelligent;
therefore I hate every false road.
105 Your word is a lantern for my foot
and light for my path.
106 I have sworn, and will make it good,
to observe your just laws.
107 I am in great misfortune;
Jehovah, give me life in accordance with your word.
108 Accept the outpourings of my mouth, Jehovah,
and teach me your laws.
109 I carry my life in my hand all the time
but never forget your instructions.
110 Wrong-doers have set a trap for me,
but I have not strayed from your mandates.
111 I have your lessons as my estate forever,
because they are the joy of my heart.
112 I have bent my heart to live up to your precepts
to the last of all.
113 I hate undecided people
but love your instructions.
114 You are my screen and shield;
I wait for your word.
115 Away from me, evil-doers,
that I may keep my God’s commandments!
116 Hold me up in accordance with your promise and let me have life,
and do not disappoint me in my reliance.
117 Hold me firm, that I may be saved
and take my pleasure in your precepts always.
118 You spurn all who go wrong from your precepts,
because their duplicity is falsehood.
120 My hair stands on end for dread of you,
and I am in fear of your judgments.
121 I have done what was lawful and right;
do not leave me to those who deny me justice.
122 Be your servant’s bail for good;
let presumptuous men not deny me justice.
123 My eyes are spent with looking for your salvation
and for your righteous promise.
124 Do with your servant as befits your friendship
and teach me your precepts.
125 I am your servant; give me intelligence
to know your lessons.
126 It is time for Jehovah to act;
they have violated your instructions.
127 Therefore I love your commandments
more than gold, red gold.
128 Therefore I hold a straight course by all your mandates,
I hate every false road.
129 Wonderful are your lessons;
therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The doorway of your words shines out,
giving good sense to simpletons.
131 I open my mouth and catch my breath
because I am so eager for your commandments.
132 Face toward me and be gracious to me,
as is right for those who love your name.
133 Make my footing sure in your behest,
and let not any villainy dominate me.
134 Redeem me from man’s injustice,
and I will observe your mandates.
135 Show your servant a shining face
and teach me your precepts.
136 My eyes run streams of water
for men’s not having observed your instructions.
137 Righteous are you, Jehovah,
and just your laws.
138 You have ordained your lessons in righteousness
and utter faithfulness.
139 My jealousy has consumed me
because my foes have forgotten your word.
140 Fully sterling is your behest,
and your servant loves it.
141 Insignificant and despised am I—
I do not forget your mandates.
142 Your right dealing is righteous forever,
and your instructions are truth.
143 Distress and hardship have befallen me;
your commandments are my enjoyment.
144 Your lessons are right forever;
give me understanding and I shall come to life.
145 I call with all my heart; answer me, Jehovah;
I will keep your precepts.
146 I call you; save me
and I will observe your lessons.
147 I am up in the twilight and clamorous,
waiting for your word.
148 My eyes come up against the night watches
studying in your behest.
149 Hear my voice in accordance with your friendship;
Jehovah, give me life in accordance with your law.
150 Those who chase after enormity have come near;
from your instructions they are far.
151 Near are you, Jehovah,
and all your commandments are truth.
152 I know of old out of your lessons
that you have laid their foundations forever.
153 See my wretched state and rescue me,
because I have not forgotten your instructions.
154 Champion my cause and stand my friend;
give me life as was your promise.
155 Far from wrong-doers is salvation
because they have not betaken themselves to your precepts.
156 Your tenderness is great, Jehovah;
give me life in accordance with your laws.
157 Many are my persecutors and foes;
I have not swerved from your lessons.
158 I saw faithless men and was seized with loathing
that they did not observe your behest.
159 See, because I love your mandates;
Jehovah, give me life in accordance with your friendship.
160 The sum of your word is truth
and all your righteous laws are forever.
161 Chieftains have been persecuting me without provocation,
but it is of your word my heart stands in dread.
162 I rejoice in your promise
as does one who finds great booty.
163 I hate and abhor falsehood;
I love your instructions.
164 Seven times a day I praise you
for your righteous laws.
165 Great peace have those who love your law,
and nothing to stumble over.
166 I rely on your salvation, Jehovah,
and live up to your commandments.
167 My soul observes your lessons
and I greatly love them.
168 I observe your mandates and lessons
because all my courses are before you.
169 Let my appeal come near before you, Jehovah:
give me understanding in accordance with your word.
170 Let my plea come in before you;
deliver me in accordance with your promise.
171 My lips shall pour out praise
because you teach me your precepts.
172 My tongue shall sing of your behest,
for all your commandments are right.
173 May your hand be for my help
because I have chosen your mandates.
174 I am wishing your salvation, Jehovah,
and your instructions are my pleasure.
175 Let my soul have life and praise you,
and your judgments give me help.
176 I am astray like a lost sheep; look your servant up,
because I have not forgotten your commandments.
(Song of the goings up.)
120 I have called to Jehovah
in distress of mine, and he has answered me.
2 Jehovah, deliver my life
from lip of falsehood, from tongue of treachery.
3 What shall he give you, and what give you more of,
tongue of treachery?
4 A champion’s barbed arrows
with live coals of broom-brushes.
5 Woe is me that I am away in Moshc,
a denizen among the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul has had too much
of living with those who hate peace.
7 I am peaceable; but when I speak
they are for war.
(Song for the goings up.)
121 I raise my eyes toward the mountains;
where is my help to come from?
2 My help is from Jehovah,
maker of heavens and earth.
3 May he not give your foot up to slipping;
may he who guards you not grow drowsy.
4 Not drowsy will he grow, nor go to sleep,
who guards Israel.
5 Jehovah it is who guards you;
Jehovah is your shade at your right hand,
6 By day the sun shall not strike at you
nor the moon by night.
7 Jehovah will guard you from everything bad,
will guard your life;
8 Jehovah will guard your going out and coming in
from now to eternity.
(Song of the goings up; of David’s.)
122 I was gladdened by those who said to me
“We will go to Jehovah’s house.”
2 Our feet are standing
in your gates, Jerusalem,
3 Jerusalem, built like a city
all linked together,
5 For there stand thrones for judgment,
the thrones of David’s house.
6 Ask for Jerusalem’s peace!
may those who love you prosper,
7 May there be peace over your common
and prosperity in your palaces!
8 On account of my brothers and friends
let me say “Peace be in you!”
9 On account of my God Jehovah’s house
let me seek good for you.
(Song of the goings up.)
123 To you I raise my eyes,
you who are enthroned in the heavens.
2 Lo, as servitors have an eye to their masters’ hands,
a maid to her mistress’s,
So our eyes are on our God Jehovah
till he is gracious to us.
3 Be gracious to us, Jehovah, be gracious to us,
for we have had the most we can take of contempt.
4 Our souls have had the most that they can take
of ridicule by easy men, of contempt by proud men.
(Song of the goings up; of David’s.)
124 If it had not been for Jehovah that was on our side,
let Israel say,
2 If it had not been for Jehovah that was on our side
when man stood up against us,
3 Then they would have swallowed us alive
in their anger against us;
4 Then the water would have swept us off,
an arroyo flood have gone over our lives;
5 Then the blustering water
would have gone over our lives.
6 Blessed be Jehovah, who did not
give us up as prey to their teeth.
7 We feel like a bird that gets out of a fowler’s trap;
the trap broke and we are out!
8 Our help is in the name of Jehovah,
maker of heavens and earth.
(Song of the goings up.)
3 For the scepter of wrong is not to rest over the lot of the righteous,
in order that the righteous may not put their hands to disloyal work.
4 Do good, Jehovah, to good men
and to men straightforward in heart;
5 But those who curve their devious course
Jehovah will take along with the doers of villainy.
Peace on Israel!
(Song of the goings up.)
126 When Jehovah came back to Sion
we were like men in a dream.
2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with caroling;
Then they said among the nations
“Jehovah has done great things for these people!”
3 Jehovah has done great things for us;
we have become merrymakers.
4 Come back to us, Jehovah,
as it comes in gorges in the South.
5 Those who sow with tears
will reap with carols.
6 The man carrying the seed for the planting goes along weeping, the man carrying his sheaves comes in with caroling.
(Song of the goings up; of Solomon’s.)
127 If Jehovah is not building a house
its builders have taken useless trouble on it;
If Jehovah is not guarding a city
a guardsman has been uselessly vigilant.
2 It is useless for you when you get up early,
do not sit down till late,
Keep busy while you eat;
he gives his loved ones the same in sleep.
3 Sons, now, are Jehovah’s allotting;
the fruit of a wife’s body is a reward.
4 Like arrows in a champion’s hand,
such are the sons of youthful years;
5 Happy the man who has filled his quiver with them.
They will not come to grief when they speak with enemies in the gate.
(Song of the goings up.)
128 Happy anyone who fears Jehovah,
goes by his roads.
2 You shall eat what your hands have toiled for;
happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be a fruitful vine in the back of your house, your sons like new-set olive-trees round your table.
4 Thus blessed shall be
a man who fears Jehovah.
5 Jehovah bless you out of Sion,
and may you look upon Jerusalem’s welfare all your lifetime
6 And see sons of your sons.
Peace on Israel!
(Song of the goings up.)
129 Ever since my youth they have made plenty of assaults on me, let Israel say;
2 Ever since my youth they have made plenty of assaults on me
yet could not master me.
3 Plowmen plowed on my back,
plowed a long strip.
4 Jehovah, doer of right,
has cut through wrong-doers’ rope;
5 All Sion’s haters
come to grief and fall back,
6 Become like roof grass
that dries up before it has made a stalk,
7 With which no reaper has filled his hand,
no binder his arm,
(Song of the goings up.)
130 Out of deep gulfs
I call to you, Jehovah.
2 Hear the sound, Lord,
let your ears be sharpened to my suppliant voice.
3 If you kept watch of guilts,
Lord Jehovah, who would stand?
4 But forgiveness dwells with you,
so that you may be feared.
5 I hope in Jehovah;
my soul hopes on his word.
6 I am waiting in soul for the Lord
more than watchmen for morning.
8 And he will redeem Israel
out of all his guilts.
(Song of the goings up; of David’s.)
131 Jehovah, my heart is not exalted
nor my eyes lofty;
I have not gone among great things
and things too mysterious for me.
2 Verily I have soothed
and stilled my soul.
Like a weaned child in its mother’s arms,
like the weaned child is my soul in me.
3 Wait toward Jehovah, Israel,
from now to eternity.
(Song of the goings up.)
132 Remember for David, Jehovah,
all his hardships:
2 That he swore to Jehovah,
vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,
3 “I will not go into my home,
will not mount my bed,
4 Will give my eyes no sleep,
my eyelashes no slumber,
5 Till I find a place for Jehovah,
abodes for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
6 We heard of it in Ephrathah,
found it amid Jaʽar’s wilds.
7 Let us go into his abodes,
do reverence at the footstool of his feet.
8 Up, Jehovah, to come to your resting-place,
you and your ark of might!
9 Let your priests be robed in righteousness
and your godly men shout!
10 For the sake of your servant David
do not refuse to listen to your anointed one.
11 Jehovah swore to David
faithfully, will never go back from it,
“Offspring of your body
I will set on the throne for you.
12 If your sons keep my covenant
and my lessons that I teach them
You shall have their sons too
sitting on the throne forevermore.”
13 For Jehovah chose Sion,
wished it for his seat:
14 “This is my resting-place forevermore;
here I will settle, because it I prefer.
15 Its provision of food I will bless
and give its poor full meals,
16 And its priests shall be robed in salvation
and its godly men shout aloud.
17 There I will have a horn grow for David;
I have filled a lamp for my anointed one.
18 His enemies I will clothe in shame,
and upon him my diadem shall bloom.”
(Song of the goings up; of David’s.)
133 Now what a good and charming thing it is
when brothers do live together!
2 Like the good oil on one’s head,
coming down over the beard,
Aaron’s beard, that came down
over the collar of his vestments,
3 Like Hermon dew, that comes down
over Sion’s mountains;
For there Jehovah ordained the blessing,
life forever.
(Song of the goings up.)
134 O bless Jehovah, all you Jehovah’s worshipers
who stand in Jehovah’s house of nights.
2 Raise your hands devoutly
and bless Jehovah.
3 Jehovah bless you out of Sion,
the Maker of heavens and earth.
2 Who stand in Jehovah’s house,
in the courts of the house of our God.
3 Praise Jehovah because Jehovah is good,
make music for his name because it is so delightful,
4 Because Jehovah has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his special reserve.
5 For I know that Jehovah is great,
and our Lord beyond all gods.
7 Brings up vapor from the earth’s end,
makes lightnings for the rain,
brings out wind from his storehouses,
8 He who struck down the eldest sons of Egypt,
man and beast,
10 Who struck down great nations
and killed formidable kings,
12 And gave their country as an estate,
an estate for his people Israel.
13 Jehovah, your name is forever;
Jehovah, the remembrance of you to generation after generation,
14 Because Jehovah will pronounce judgment for his people
and take pity on his servants.
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
work of human hands.
16 They have mouths and do not speak,
they have eyes and do not see,
17 They have ears and do not give ear,
there is no breath in their mouths either.
18 Like them be their makers,
everybody that trusts to them!
19 House of Israel, bless Jehovah!
house of Aaron, bless Jehovah!
20 House of the Levites, bless Jehovah!
fearers of Jehovah, bless Jehovah!
136 Give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good,
because his friendship lasts forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods,
because his friendship lasts forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of Lords,
because his friendship lasts forever:
4 To him who has alone done great wonders,
because his friendship lasts forever;
5 Him who made the sky with insight,
because his friendship lasts forever;
6 Him who spread the earth over the water,
because his friendship lasts forever;
7 Him who made great lights,
because his friendship lasts forever,
8 The sun to rule by day,
because his friendship lasts forever,
9 The moon and stars to rule by night,
because his friendship lasts forever;
10 Him who struck the Egyptians in their eldest sons,
because his friendship lasts forever,
11 And brought Israel out of their midst,
because his friendship lasts forever,
12 With strong hand and outstretched arm,
because his friendship lasts forever;
13 Him who cut the Red Sea in two,
because his friendship lasts forever,
14 And took Israel across through the middle,
because his friendship lasts forever,
15 But tumbled the Pharaoh and his troops about in the Red Sea, because his friendship lasts forever;
16 Him who conducted Israel through the wilderness,
because his friendship lasts forever;
17 Him who struck down great kings,
because his friendship lasts forever,
18 And killed august kings,
because his friendship lasts forever,
19 King Sihon of the Amorites,
because his friendship lasts forever,
20 And King ʽOg of the Bashan,
because his friendship lasts forever,
21 And gave their country for an estate,
because his friendship lasts forever,
22 An estate for his servant Israel,
because his friendship lasts forever;
23 Him who remembered us in our lowness,
because his friendship lasts forever,
24 And tore us out of the hands of our foes,
because his friendship lasts forever;
25 Giver of bread to all mortals,
because his friendship lasts forever;
26 Give thanks to the God of Heaven,
because his friendship lasts forever.
137 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down,
wept withal, when we remembered Sion.
2 Within it we hung our lyres
on poplar trees,
3 Because there our captors asked us for words of song
and our persecutors for merrymaking,
“Sing us some of the songs of Sion.”
4 How are we to sing Jehovah’s song
on foreign soil?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget how to work!
6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember,
if I do not put Jerusalem higher than the peak of my happiness.
7 Remember Jerusalem’s day, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom,
those who said “Clear it off, clear it off, to the foundation of it.”
9 Happy he who shall take
and dash out against the crags the brains of the children that play
about in you!
(Of David’s.)
138 I will give you thanks, Jehovah, with all my heart,
make music for you in presence of gods,
2 Do reverence toward your holy temple
and give thanks to your name
For your friendliness and loyalty,
because you made your promise great beyond all your fame
3 On the day that I called out and you answered me,
inspirited me, strength in my soul.
4 All earth’s kings shall acknowledge you, Jehovah,
because they hear the words of your mouth,
5 And sing of Jehovah’s courses,
because great is Jehovah’s glory.
6 For Jehovah is high and sees a low man,
and knows a lofty man far away.
7 If I go through the heart of distress you will give me life,
will reach out your hand against my enemies’ anger,
And your right hand will save me;
8 Jehovah will carry through on my behalf.
Jehovah, your friendship lasts forever;
do not abandon the works of your hands.
(Of the Director; of David’s; a psalm.)
139 Jehovah, you have sounded me and know me,
2 you know my sitting down and my standing up,
you far away are aware of what I have in mind.
3 You itemize my traveling about and my lying down to rest,
and are familiar with all my courses.
4 When a word is not on my tongue,
there you, Jehovah, know the whole of it.
5 You hem me in behind and before
and lay your hand on me.
6 The knowledge is too mysterious for me;
it is inaccessible; I am not capable of it.
7 Where shall I go from your spirit?
and where shall I get away from your face?
8 If I go up in the sky you are there;
and let me make my bed in the realm of death, there you are.
9 Let me lift the wings of dawn
and alight at the back of the west,
10 Even there your hand will be leading me
and your right hand grasping me.
11 And do I say “I will just have darkness shroud me
and night enclose me,”
12 Even darkness does not make it too dark for you,
and night is light as day;
the darkness and the light are alike.
13 For it was you that built my vitals,
were weaving me together in my mother’s body.
14 I acclaim you that you are fearfully mysterious;
mysterious are your works, and my soul knows it well.
16 Your eye saw my germs,
and they were all registered in your book;
Many days they were shaped,
and not one of them was lost.
17 And what a stupendous thing to me
are the objects of your concern, Jehovah!
how multitudinous is their sum!
18 I count them—they outnumber the sand;
I make an end—I am still at you.
19 If you are killing a wrong-doer, God,
and bloodstained men, turn aside from me;
20 Those who perversely disobey you,
futilely set themselves up against you,
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Jehovah,
and loathe those who stand up against you?
22 I hate them with utmost hate;
they have become enemies of mine.
23 Search me, Deity, and know my heart,
test me and know my ideas,
24 And see if I have in me a course that leads to pain,
and lead me on the course that lasts forever.
(Of the Director; a psalm; of David’s.)
140 Rescue me, Jehovah, from evil men,
guard me from injurious men,
2 Who think of mischief at heart,
are starting fights all day,
3 Have whetted their tongues like a snake’s,
have under their lips an adder’s venom. (Selah)
4 Keep me out of wrong-doers’ hands, Jehovah,
guard me from injurious men,
who plan to give my feet a shove.
5 Proud men have buried a trap for me
and persecutors have spread a net,
on the roadside they have set snares for me. (Selah)
6 I have said to Jehovah “You are my God”;
give ear, Jehovah, to my suppliant voice.
7 Jehovah, my Lord, might of my salvation,
you have overarched my head when arms were busy.
8 Do not give what a wrong-doer hankers for;
do not let his design work out. [Selah]
9 Those who surround me are lifting their heads against me;
the mischief of their lips shall cover them,
10 Burning coals shall be dislodged upon them,
he shall drop them into a fire,
into pits where they shall not get up.
11 A man who depends on his tongue will not stand firm on earth; an injurious man evil shall hunt down stroke by stroke.
12 I know that Jehovah will execute sentence for a downtrodden man,
justice for needy men.
13 Honest men shall indeed give thanks to your name,
upright men shall be seated before your face.
(A psalm. of David’s.)
141 Jehovah, I am calling you; make haste for me;
give ear to my voice as I call for you.
2 Let my prayer be made ready as incense before you,
the lifting of my hands be an evening sacrifice.
3 Station a guard for my mouth, Jehovah,
watch over the door of my lips.
4 Let my heart not incline to a bad thing,
to find amusement in wrong-doing
With villainous men,
nor take a meal of their dainties.
5 Let a doer of right trounce me,
let his friendship correct me;
Let a wrong-doer’s oil not anoint my head,
because they have fettered my prayer by their wicked acts.
6 Their judges are hurled down the sides of crags,
and they shall hear my words, because they are pleasant.
7 Like clods torn open on the earth
our bones are scattered as the world below would take them.
8 For my eyes are toward you, Lord Jehovah;
I have taken refuge in you; do not let my life run out.
9 Guard me from the grip of the trap they have set for me
and the snares of villains;
10 Let wrong-doers fall into its nets together
while I pass through.
(Meditative; of David’s when he was in the cave; a prayer.)
142 Aloud to Jehovah I cry,
aloud with Jehovah I plead.
2 Before him I pour out my complaint,
before him I tell my distress,
3 While my spirit is failing;
but you know my path.
In the road that I walk on
they have buried a trap for me.
4 I look on the right and see,
and there is no one that takes an interest in me;
My place to flee to is lost,
there is no one looking out for my life.
6 Listen to my appeal,
because I am in great want:
Deliver me from my persecutors,
because they are too strong for me.
7 Bring my life out of lockup
to give thanks to your name;
Honest men are awaiting my prospect
that you will do me a good turn.
(A psalm of David’s.)
143 Jehovah, hear my prayer,
give ear to my supplication,
in your faithfulness answer me with your right-doing,
2 And do not take your servant into court,
because no one living will be in the right before you.
3 For an enemy has persecuted my soul,
beaten my life down to the ground,
Seated me in places of darkness
like men long since dead,
4 And my spirit has failed,
my heart is aghast within me.
6 I spread out my hands to you;
my soul looks to you as does a country perishing with drought.
(Selah)
7 Answer me quickly, Jehovah;
my spirit has given out.
Do not veil your face from me
and have me be like those who are down in the Pit.
8 Let me hear of your friendship in the morning,
because I am confident in you.
Make known to me the road I am to go,
because I lift my soul to you.
9 Deliver me from my enemies, Jehovah;
to you I flee.
10 Teach me to do as is acceptable to you,
because you are my God.
Your spirit is good; let it lead me
over level ground.
11 For the sake of your name, Jehovah, you will give me life;
in your right-doing you will bring my soul out of distress,
12 And in your friendship you will annihilate my enemies
and destroy all the assailants of my soul,
because I am your servant.
(Of David’s.)
144 Blessed be Jehovah my Rock,
who teaches my hands to do battle and my fingers to fight,
2 My friend and my fastness,
my citadel and my own preserver,
My shield and the one I take refuge in,
he who treads down peoples under me.
3 Jehovah, what is man that you should know of him,
a human being that you should think of him?
4 Man is like a puff of vapor,
his days are like a passing shadow.
5 Jehovah, bend your sky and come down,
touch the mountains and let them smoke.
6 Flash lightning and scatter them;
send your arrows and throw them into confusion.
8 Whose mouths speak hollowly
and whose right hand is a hand of falsehood.
9 A new song let me sing for you, God,
with ten-stringed lyre make music for you
10 Who give salvation to kings,
who freed your servant David from baleful warfare.
11 Free me and deliver me
from the hands of foreigners
Whose mouths speak hollowly
and whose right hand is a hand of falsehood.
12 That our sons are like young fruit-trees,
grown tall in their boyhood;
Our daughters like corner-posts
carved in palace fashion;
13 Our barns full,
giving out this sort and that;
Our sheep lambing by thousands,
by tens of thousands in our open spaces;
15 Happy the people that has it like this;
happy the people whose God is Jehovah.
(A hymn of David’s.)
145 I exalt you, my Divine King,
and will bless your name forevermore.
2 Every day I bless you,
and will praise your name forevermore.
3 Great is Jehovah and greatly to be praised,
beyond exploration is his greatness.
4 Generation to generation shall laud your deeds
and tell your feats,
5 Talk of the splendor of the glory of your majesty
and study your wonders
6 And say the mightiness of your terrors,
and I will tell the story of your greatness;
7 They shall pour out commemoration of the abundance of your goodness
and shout your right-doing.
8 Kindly and tenderhearted is Jehovah,
patient and great in friendliness.
9 Jehovah is good to everything,
and his tenderheartedness is toward all his works.
10 All your works shall give thanks to you, Jehovah,
and those that have your friendship shall bless you.
11 They shall utter the glory of your empire
and speak your prowess,
12 Making known to mankind your feats
and the glory of the splendor of your empire.
13 Your empire is an empire for all ages,
and your dominion over every generation that comes.
Jehovah is trusty in his words
and friendly in all his deeds.
14 Jehovah is a supporter of all who are falling
and a raiser of all who are bent down.
15 Every creature’s eyes look to you, Jehovah,
and you give their food at the due time.
16 You open your hand
and give your favor to satisfy every living thing.
17 Jehovah is fair in all his courses
and friendly in all his deeds.
18 Jehovah is near to all who call on him,
all who call on him sincerely.
19 He will do what those who fear him can welcome,
and will hear their cry and save them.
20 Jehovah guards all who love him,
but all wrong-doers he will root out.
146 Praise Jehovah!
Praise Jehovah, my soul;
2 I will praise Jehovah while I live,
make music for my God while I exist.
3 Do not trust confidently in noblemen,
in a human being to whom salvation does not belong:
4 The breath in him will go out,
he will go back to the soil he came from,
that day his goodwill is a total loss.
5 Happy he who has Jacob’s God for his help,
whose reliance is on his God Jehovah,
7 doer of justice for those to whom it is denied,
Giver of bread to hungry men;
Jehovah undoes prisoners’ fetters,
9 Jehovah safeguards immigrants,
Keeps orphan and widow on their feet
and circumvents wrong-doers’ courses.
147 Praise Jehovah, because he is good;
make music for our God, because he is sweet;
praise is glorious work.
2 Jehovah is Jerusalem’s upbuilder,
he collects the exiles of Israel,
3 He who heals men broken at the heart
and bandages their aches,
4 Who counts off the stars,
names them all.
5 Great is our Lord and supremely strong;
his understanding is incalculable.
6 Jehovah keeps humble men on their feet,
brings wrong-doers down on the ground.
7 Sing out to Jehovah in thanksgiving,
make music for our God with a lyre,
9 Gives their feed to cattle,
to ravens’ young as they call.
10 Not the pony’s mettle pleases him,
not the man’s legs gratify him;
11 Jehovah is gratified with those who fear him,
those who await his friendship.
12 Laud Jehovah, Jerusalem,
praise your God, Sion,
13 Because he has strengthened the bars of your gates,
has blessed your sons within you.
14 He who makes your domain prosperous,
gives you your fill of the richest of wheat,
15 He who sends his behest on earth,
right speedily does his word run;
16 He who gives snow like wool,
scatters hoarfrost like ashes,
17 Throws his ice like scraps;
before his cold who holds out?
18 He sends his word and melts them;
he makes his wind blow, water trickles,—
19 Tells Jacob his word,
Israel his rules and laws.
2 Praise him, all his angels,
praise him, all his legions;
3 Praise him, sun and moon,
praise him, all stars of light;
4 Praise him, sky of the sky,
and waters above the sky!
5 Let them praise Jehovah’s name,
because he commanded and they were created,
6 And he set them to stand forever and aye,
set a rule that they were not to violate.
7 Praise Jehovah from the earth,
sea monsters and all deeps,
8 Fire and hail, snow and black cloud,
tempest-wind carrying out his word,
9 The mountains and all hills,
fruit trees and all cedars,
10 The beasts and all cattle,
reptiles and winged birds,
11 Earth’s kings and every folk,
captains and all earth’s judges,
12 Young men, and maidens too,
old men with boys!
13 Let them praise Jehovah’s name,
because his name alone towers high,
his majesty is over earth and skies,
14 And he has given a high horn to his people,
praise to all the men of his friendship,
To Israel’s sons,
a people near to him.
Praise Jehovah!
2 Let Israel be glad for his Maker,
Sion’s sons jubilate for their King.
3 Let them praise his name with dancing,
make music for him with tambourine and lyre,
4 Because Jehovah is looking graciously on his people,
will make humble men magnificent in victory.
5 Let men of friendship exult in triumph,
carol on their beds,
6 Acclamations to Deity in their throats
and two-edged swords in their hands
7 To wreak revenge on the nations,
punishment on many a folk,
8 Putting their kings in fetters,
their aristocrats in iron shackles,
9 Executing on them prescribed justice;
it is a glittering privilege for all the men of his friendship.
Praise Jehovah!
2 Praise Jehovah for his feats of power,
praise him for his supreme greatness!
3 Praise him with blast of ram-horn,
praise him with harp and lyre!
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance,
praise him with sounding strings and pipe!
5 Praise him with loud cymbals,
praise him with ringing cymbals!
6 Let all breath praise Jehovah;
praise Jehovah!
MARGINAL NOTES TO PSALMS
2:9 Conj.* shall shepherd them
2:11-12 Codd. and jubilate with quaking, (12) kiss cleanly, for fear
2:12 (right away) Unc.
3:2 Var. in God
4:2 Var. Gentlemen, how long will you emptily love turning my glory to humiliation, seek
4:3 Conj. has accorded me extraordinary friendship; Jehovah will
4:8 Lit. will together lie down and go to sleep
6:2-3 Or are convulsed. My soul is utterly convulsed
6:7 Or been clouded for
7:sup heading (affair) Or words
7:6 Or bestir yourself, my Deity. A judgment
7:7 Codd. a congregation of many a folk
7:8 (last words) Unc.
7:10 Lit. is on God Var. is God Conj. My shield over me is God
7:11 Or and a Deity hostile
7:11 Codd. hostile every day
8:1 (last half) Susp., unc.
8:2 (laid a foundation of might) Susp.
9-10 heading Unc.
9-10 These two seem to be one psalm through which the alphabet runs, about two verses to a letter of the alphabet, but the alphabet is imperfect
9:6 Two verses somewhere between verse 5 and verse 7, giving another letter of the Hebrew alphabet, must have been lost inn copying. Verse 6 susp.
9:12 (first half) Susp.
9:17 Or below, all nations forgetful
10 It is disputed, and has been disputed since ancient times, whether psalm 10 is a separate psalm or psalms 9-10 are one psalm
10:2-10 Susp. (the imperfections of the alphabet are mainly here)
10:5 Conj. Your judgments are out of his line; all (to get another letter of alphabet)
10:6 Codd. unshaken, it is for generation upon generation that I am not in evil. (7) Of imprecation his mouth is full, and fraud (lit. without I am)
10:7 Lit. fraud and extortion fill his mouth
10:8 (last part) Unc.
10:10 Or* is crushed, brought low A letter of the alphabet is missing here; conj. a just man is crushed, conj. he hunts, crushes down
10:10 (wretches) Unc.
10:14 Susp.; unc.
10:14 Lit. leaves; you
10:17-18 Var. Humble men’s desire you have heard, Jehovah, you establish their hearts, you sharpen your eyes, To judge orphan and downtrodden; never again let a man out of the earth be arrogant.
11:4 Conj. His eyes view human life, his glances test the sons of men
12:1 Or because reliable persons are extinct among
12:2 Lit. talk slippery lip with a double heart
12:3 Lit. a tongue that talks big
12:5 (last part) Unc.; susp.
12:6 (in a cupel on the ground) Unc.; susp.
12:7 Or will guard it, will keep it
12:7 (last part) Susp.
13:3 Lit. Look, answer
13:3 Lit. may not sleep death
13:4-5 Or, because I stagger. But I have
14:5 Lit. God scatters an
14:6 Susp.
14:6 Lit. shall put to shame
14:7 Or when Jehovah restores his people
15:2 Conj. speaks truthfully as he means
16:2-3 Codd. said to Jehovah “You are my Lord; my good is not above you; to holy ones that are on earth and grand ones in whom I take all my pleasure (Var. to the holy ones that are in his country he has made grand all his intents among them)
16:4 (first part) Susp. (have some words or letters been lost?) Var.* Their griefs are many Codd.* they woo another (without the word god) Conj. (for hurry to get another god) have made their path bad
16:5 Lit. my share and my cup Codd.* Jehovah is the share and cup apportioned to me
16:5 Lit. you handle my lot
16:9 Lit. and my glory (conj. my liver) is jubilant
16:11 Lit. will have me know paths (or the path)
16:11 Lit. with your face there are
17:1 Var. my just cause Var. a just man Conj. my outcry
17:1 Lit. not with
17:3 (end), 4 (beginning) Susp. Conj. I will not transgress your bidding (lit. your mouth) for deeds of blood
17:4 Codd. kept ruffians’ paths
17:5 Lit. not have lost
17:7 Lit. without the words in you
17:10 Codd. Their fat they have shut; with their mouths
17:11 Codd. They surround us, our footsteps Ancient copies have many different readings for the words, mostly with me for us
17:11 Lit. aim their eyes to turn them on the country
17:12 Var. They thought of me like a lion eager Susp.
17:14 Lit. without the words preserve it
17:15 (at waking) Susp.
[18:1 Verse 1 is missing here from the translator’s text, evidently because the corresponding material is not in the parallel psalm in 2 Samuel 22]
18:3 Codd. my savior, you save me
18:3 Or I call on Jehovah, a Susp.
18:27 Var. your eyes are on lofty men whom you bring down
18:45 Or wriggle out of
19:12 Lit. veiled things
20:3 (make much of) Unc.
21:6 Lit. make him blessings
21:10 Susp.
21:10 Lit. their fruit out of earth and their seed out of
21:11 Or laid out mischief for you
21:12 Lit. with your bowstrings you would aim at
22:1 (Salvation) Susp.
22:2 Or by night and am not still
22:3 Conj. you are the Holy One of Jacob, the expectation of Israel is in you
22:3 Var. the praise
22:11 Or for distress is near, for there is
22:14 Lit. I run like water
22:14 Lit. melts in the middle of my viscera
22:15 Conj. The roof of my mouth is dried out
22:15 Conj. and the clay of death is on my lips
22:16 Conj. that a company of malefactors have come about me does not belong here
22:21 Var. mouth—you have answered me from a ure’s
22:21 Var. from ures’
22:25 Codd. From you comes my praise
22:26 Lit. alive be your hearts
22:29 Codd. (without Only to him) All the hale of earth have eaten and done reverence
22:29 (hale) Susp.
22:29 (last part) and 31 Susp.
22:31 Var. because Jehovah acted
23:2 Lit. takes me along a water of resting-places
23:6 Or I have nothing but
24:6 (first part) Susp.
24:6 Var. who go to him
24:9 Var. be raised
25:2 Codd. do not have you are my stay
25:5 Conj. that one line of verse 7 belongs at the end of this verse
25:6 Lit. have been from
25:9 Conj. teach unhappy men
25:12 Lit. instruct him of the way to
25:13 Lit. His person shall
25:19 Codd. have verse 18 before verse 19 and begin both of them with See, but the alphabet requires that one of them should begin with some other word
25:19 Or hate me like sin
25:21 Var. omits Jehovah
26:2 Lit. smelt my heart or assay my heart
26:4 Or seat with unprincipled men
26:5 Or sit with
26:9 Lit. my soul (or person) with sinners, with murderers my life
26:10 Lit. their right hands full
26:11 Var. without the name Jehovah
27:3 Lit. a battle stands up against me
27:13 (first words) Susp.
27:14 Var.* and let him keep your heart constant
28:4 Var. omits last half of verse
28:7 Conj. on him. I am helped
29:9 (strips woodlands) Conj. brings wild goats to birth
30:1 Lit. you have pulled me out
30:5 (moment) Susp.
30:7 (first half) Susp.
30:9 Or when I go down
30:11 Or You will have
31:10 Lit. stumbles in wretchedness
31:12 The Hebrew word translated basket may mean any portable article for any use
31:15 Lit. my times (points of time, not periods of time) are in your hands
31:19 Var. without the name Jehovah
31:21 (in a besieged city) Susp.
32:2 Lit. no fraud in his spirit
32:4 Lit. my cake was turned with
32:4 Var. as if with summer droughts
32:5 Lit. I made known my sin to you
32:6 Lit. Because of this let
32:6 Lit. when much water is poured out in flood it shall Codd. pray to you at the time for finding; only in a flood of much water it shall
32:7 (last half) Susp.
32:8 (last half) Susp.
32:9 (last half) Unc.; susp.; lit. its not coming near you
33:1 Lit. is glorious for
33:7 Conj.* has massed . . . has put
33:17 Lit. with the greatness of its
34:6 To fill out the alphabet there must originally have been another verse between verses 5 and 6
34:10 Or of anything good
34:12 (years) Lit. days
34:16 Codd. have verse 15 before verse 16 in accordance with the more usual order of the alphabet; but the other order, which the connection with verse 17 seems to require, is the order of the alphabet in most of the book of Lamentations
34:18 Lit. the pulverized in spirit
34:19 Lit. Many are an honest man’s evils
35:3 (hatchet) Unc.; codd.* Take out a spear and block (the way) to meet
35:7 Lit. buried a net
35:8 Lit. a storm that he does not know
35:12 (childlessness) Susp.
35:13 (last part) Susp.
35:15 Unc.; susp.
35:15 Lit. they tore and were
35:16 Codd. They tested me to make downright fun Var. As being the most ungodly of cake-jeerers, they ground
35:17 Codd. back from their shocks, from two-year-old lions my
36:2 Susp.
36:4 Lit. thinks up villainy in bed
36:7 (God! and) Susp.
36:12 Conj. are aghast, have fallen; they
37:7 Conj. that some words of verse 14 belong here and not there
37:16 Or A little that belongs to an honest man is better than many rascals’ affluence
37:16 Var. than a great host of rascals (or than rascals’ great affluence)
37:18 Lit. knows the days
37:20 Conj. that some words of verse 25 belong here, with some grammatical change, and not there
37:20 Codd. like the gorgeousness of uplands or like the preciousness of lambs
37:24 Lit. holds up his hand
37:34 Conj. that some words of verse 40 belong here, with some grammatical change, and not there
37:35 Or and upraising himself like Var. and standing out nakedly like
37:35 Var. a verdant native Var. the cedars of Lebanon
37:36 Or one went past Var. I went past
37:37 Var.* Watch an upright man and see a straightforward man
37:37 Conj. and cultivate straightforwardness
38:1 Var. nor discipline
38:2 Var. your hand has sunk down on me Var. you have sunk your hand down on me Susp.
38:4 Lit. pass my head
38:8 Conj. my roaring is louder than a lion’s growl
38:14 Lit. has no confutations in his mouth
38:18 Codd. I report my guilt
39:2 Or I was quietly mute; I
39:5 Codd. every man that sets himself up is just every puff of air (var. is just a puff of air Var. is just like a puff of air)
39:6 (middle part) Susp.
39:8 (crimes) Susp.
40:2 (ruin) Unc.; conj. the pit of death
40:4 Var.* the man whose reliance is Jehovah’s name and who has not
40:4 Or pretenders and renegade liars
40:5 Lit. Many have you, Jehovah my God, done your wonders
40:6 (middle part) Susp.; lit. dug out for me
40:7 Lit. “Here I come, there is written for me in a book-roll.” Or “Here I come, I am written about in a book-roll.”
40:9-10 Susp.
40:15 Lit. stand aghast at the heel of their
40:17 Conj. my helper and
41:2 Var. and give him life and let him run
41:2 Lit. and do not
41:3 Lit. turn all his bed
41:4 Or though I have
41:4 (sinned) Susp.
41:5 Lit. say bad for me
41:8 Lit. A thing of bale is gushing over him, and what he has lain down he will stand up no more
42:3 Var. their saying
42:4 Lit. pour out my soul over myself, that at the Booths
42:4 (skipping) Unc.
42:5, 6, 11; 43:5 Lit. over me
42:5, 11; 43:5 (my open savior) Lit. the salvation of my face
42:8 Codd. By day Jehovah ordain
42:8 Codd. I have his song with me, a prayer
43:3 Lit. abodes
44:2 Or You, your hand,
44:8 Or God we praise
44:15 Lit. the shame of my face covers me
45:4-5 Susp.
45:6 Or Your throne is divine Conj. Your throne shall be
45:7 Conj. Jehovah, your God
45:9 Codd. Daughters of kings are in your costly adornments (or among your precious women); at your right hand stands a queen
45:11-12 Codd. your lord; and do reverence to him. And the daughter of Tyre, the rich men of a people, shall propitiate you with a present.
45:13-14 Codd. King’s daughter within is all glorious; her dress is filigree of gold. With embroidery she is conducted
45:16 Lit. as generals
45:16 Or throughout the country
46:sup heading (in falsetto voices) Or to high-pitched accompaniment
46:3 Lit. with its pride
46:5 Lit. help her as morning draws on
47:4 (first words) Susp.
47:9 Var. together, with the God Conj. together, with the people of the God
48:9 Or considered your friendship
49:5 Codd. in an evil man’s days
49:8 Lit. one lets it go
49:11 Var. What is in them is, their houses will be forever
49:13 (last half) Susp.; var. after them they approve
49:13 Lit. run by their mouths
49:14 Susp.
49:14 (are brought down) Unc.
49:16 Conj. Do not stare when
49:16 Lit. his house’s fortune
49:19 Lit. It will
50:6 Conj.* a God of justice
50:11 Var. birds of the air
50:14 Lit. Sacrifice thanksgiving to God
50:16 Codd. add the words But to the wrong-doer God says at the beginning of verse 16
50:18 Var.* you run with him
50:20 Or finding fault with your mother’s son
50:23 Lit. He who sacrifices thanks giving
51:14 Lit. from blood
51:18 Var. you will build Jerusalem’s walls
52:1 Lit. is all day
52:4 (quibbling) Unc.
52:7 (last words) Susp.
52:9 (middle) Unc.; conj. and show your name, how good it is
53:5 Susp.
53:5 Lit. God scatters an
53:5 Lit. shall put to shame
53:6 Or when God restores his people
54:3 (high-handed men) Var. strangers
54:4 Lit. is among the bearers-up
54:6 Lit. sacrifice to you ad libitum
55:5 Lit. gooseflesh has covered me
55:9 Susp.
55:15 (first words) Unc.; susp.
55:15 (lockers) Unc.; susp.
55:16 Var. and God will
55:18 Codd. from what was near me, though they amounted to many with me
56:sup heading (Dove of Far-Off Oaks) Unc.; var. Silent Dove of Far-Off Men
56:2 (bitterly) Codd. aloft Susp.
56:5 Codd. they torment my concerns; their
56:6 (first part) Susp.; codd. hide; they themselves watch
56:6 Conj. heels, hope like a leopard to
56:7 Codd. Because of there being no escape Var. Because of, violence there is escape
56:8 (writhings) Unc.; susp.
56:8 Codd. bag (in your account, is it not?) Some translate bag; in your account, are they not?
56:10 (twice) Lit. a word
56:13 Codd. from death (doesn’t “my feet from losing their hold” go here?), to walk Some translate from death; my feet from losing their hold, did you not? to walk
57:3 Codd. save me; he who snaps his jaws at me has taunted. (Selah.) God will send his friendship and loyalty. I, my own soul, will lie down in the midst of lions
57:4 Susp.
57:4 (flash) Unc.
57:6 (their own foot was caught) Codd. my soul it bent down
57:8 (first words) Susp.
58:1 Codd.* indeed mutely speak right
58:7 Codd. Let them melt down like water running off; let him draw his arrows as if they were to have their points clipped off
58:9 Or Dry out their shoots and cut them off, blow them away like Codd. Before your pots perceive a thornbush, alive and heat alike he will blow it away
59:4 Lit. without guilt they
59:7 Conj. They have spears in their mouths, swords on their lips
59:9 Conj.* My stronghold
59:11 Var. to roving back and forth and bring them down
59:11-12 (Hand etc.) Codd. our shield, Lord. The sin of their mouths is the word of their lips Var. our shield, Lord. For the sin of their mouths, the word of their lips, let them
59:12 Susp.
60:4 Unc.
60:5 Codd. save, your right hand, and
60:8 (last part) Unc.
61:2 Codd.* will lead me to a rock too lofty for me Var. will set me aloft upon a rock, lead me, because
61:3 Or tower of strength
61:5 Codd. granted the possession of
61:6 Or his years you will increase like Lit. his years like
62:1 Or My soul is a silence just toward God
62:4 (first part) Unc.; susp.
62:5 Or Be silent
63:1 Var. in a droughty
63:2 Codd. Thus in the sanctuary I have viewed you, seeing your
63:6 Lit. in the watches I muse
63:9 Var. they are hunting for my life to blast—they shall
63:10 Or of jackals
64:3 (last half) Susp.
64:4 Var. and not be afraid
64:5 Lit. strengthen a bad business for themselves
64:5 (recite directions) Unc.; conj. dig to hide traps
64:6 Codd. “who sees them (var. us)?” they search out foul play; we are done with; (var. they are done with; var. they have hidden) a searched search, and each man’s bosom and a deep heart
64:8 Words seem to have been lost in coping; perhaps the original was something like they stumble . . . against them their tongue with nobody knows what in place of the dots
64:8 Or will shake his head
64:9 Or give enlightenment
65:3 Var. for us
65:5 Codd. distant men’s sea
65:7 Codd. waves, and the uproar of many a folk
65:8 Lit. of ends
65:9 Lit. prepared it
66:2 (last part) Susp.
66:6 Or (lit.) cross the river
66:6 (last part) Susp.
66:17 Lit. was under
66:18 Codd. If I had villainy in view in my heart, the Lord would
66:20 Or that he did not
66:20 (middle part) Susp.
67:1 Conj. has been gracious to us and blessed us, shown
67:2 Var. his courses . . . his salvation
68:2 Lit. (unc.) As smoke that it drives drives off
68:4 (lay a road) Unc.
68:4 Codd. rides in the deserts
68:4 Codd. Jehovah is his name, and exult
68:6 (hardily) Unc.
68:8 Conj. before God; Sinai shook before God
68:10 Or Your animals, which lived in it, you provide
68:11-14 Unc., susp.
68:12 Conj. Militia sends a king flying, flying
68:17 (thousandfold) Unc.
68:17 Codd. the Lord is among them, Sinai in the sanctuary
68:18 Or have received gifts to dwell among men, even sinful men, Jehovah God. Susp.
68:23 Susp.
68:24 Conj. See God’s processions, your processions, my Deity
68:25 Conj.* in the midst young women
68:26 Codd. Israel’s source
68:27 Codd. Benjamin a little one, he who has the mastery of them
68:27 Codd. of Judah their stone-heap
68:30 Unc., susp.
68:30 Conj. tramples gold dust and silver;
68:31 (first part) Unc.; var. shall come in haste from
68:35 Codd. out of your sanctuary (var. sanctuaries) Var. in his sanctuary (var. sanctuaries)
69:1 Lit. for water has come clear to life
69:4 (then) Susp.
69:10 Lit. And I depressed my soul with
69:11-12 Conj. a byword of theirs, an object of laughter to sitters in the gate, and
69:12 Var. and a butt for the jingles of beer-drinkers
69:13 Codd. But as for me, my prayer is to you, Jehovah, at a time of acceptance, God, in the greatness of your friendliness; answer me in your faithfulness of salvation (or the like words with different punctuation)
69:14 Conj. not sink in; lift me out of deep holes in the waters
69:19-20 Susp.
69:27 Lit. not come into your right-doing
69:29 Var. I am in hardship and in pain, but may the salvation of your presence set me
69:32 Codd. Humble men see and shall
70:3 Lit. stand aghast (var. turn back) at the heel of their
70:5 Conj. my helper and
71:6 (severed) Unc., susp.
71:7 Or strong refuge
71:15 (books) Unc., susp.
71:18 (last part), 19 (first part) Susp.
71:20 (us, three times) Var. me
71:21 (first part) Conj. Redeem me abundantly
71:21 (last part) Codd. go round (var. back) to comforting me
71:22 Lit. harp-instrument
71:23 (middle part) Susp.
72:3 (last part) Susp.
72:9 Codd. wildcats shall stoop
72:16 Susp.
72:16 Codd. and they blossom out of a city like the herbage
72:20 Lit. Finished are
73:1 Codd.* Assuredly God is good to Israel, to the singlehearted
73:7 (first part) Codd. Their eyes stick out from (or for) fat
73:8 Lit. They mock and talk of bad things (conj.* of a friend), talk refusal of justice down from aloft Susp.
73:10 Susp.
73:10 Codd. and they have a full drink of water drained Conj.* and they drain a full drink of water
73:15 Susp.
73:15 Conj. that the word If does not belong here
73:15 Var. you have been or you had been
73:18 Codd. You set altogether in slippery places for them, you bring them to their fall in delusions
73:20 Codd. Like a dream after waking, Lord, at rousing you despise the images of them
73:24 (and afterward take me in glory) So punctuated by the Jews; but the words seem to say and take me after glory, of which the meaning is unknown
73:26 Codd. giving out; God is my heart’s Rock and my portion forever
73:28 (last part) Susp.
74:3 Codd.* dwell. Raise your footsteps high to perpetual deserts (or delusions or upliftings or forgettings)
74:4-6 Susp.
74:8 (on earth) Or in the country
74:11 Codd. your hand and your right hand? out of the fold of your robe, finish!
74:12 Conj. But you, God, are
74:14 Or race of jinns
74:19-20 Susp.
74:20 Codd. Look at the covenant, for earth’s dark places are filled with fields of outrage
75:2 Or Though I wait my time Lit. When (or Though) I take a date
75:8 Lit. full of admixture
75:8 Lit. pours from this one to that one
76:3 Codd. broke brands of bow (supposed to mean arrows)
76:4 Susp.
76:10 Var. the remnant from rage keeps your feasts
77:2 Codd. invoke the Lord; by night my hand drains out, never has its pain dulled, my soul refuse.
77:4 Codd.* You hold my eyelids
77:4 Lit. do not speak
77:8 Codd. with promises
77:10 Codd. And I thought “It is a sickness of mine that the right hand of the Most High is changing.”
77:11 Susp.
77:18 Codd. There goes the sound of your thundering with the wheels
77:20 Lit. like sheep
78:9 Susp.
78:9 Or The sons of Ephraim, archers armed,
78:27 Lit. like the loam, and
78:28 Codd. within his camp, around his lodges
78:52 Lit. like sheep
78:63 Var.* its maidens were not wedded
78:72 Lit. shepherded them in accordance with the sincerity of his heart and guided them by the intelligence of his hand
79:11 Lit. In accordance with the greatness of your arm
79:11 Var. make men under sentence of death to survive
80:6 Var. amuse themselves with them or simply amuse themselves
80:10 Lit. cedars of Deity
80:14-15 Susp.
80:15 Or you strengthened for yourself
80:16 Codd. Burn down, lop short
80:17 Or you strengthened for yourself
81:6 Conj. your shoulder . . . your hands
81:7 Lit. in a screen
81:15 Codd. hate Jehovah
81:15 Codd. and what happens (unc.) to them be forever
81:16 Lit. the fat of wheat
82:6 Or I said
82:7 Lit. and generals
83:8 Lit. been an arm to the sons
83:11 Susp.
84:5 Or have shelter
84:5 (last half), 6 Susp.; unc.
84:6 Codd.* with blessings too the fall rain overspreads it.
84:7 Unc.
84:7 Codd.* one appears to God at
84:10 Conj. than a thousand in my chambers, standing at the threshold of the house of my God than lodging in tents of riches
85:1 Or restored Jacob
85:3 Codd. reversed some of your anger or, with doubtful grammar, turned back from your anger
85:8 Var. friendship; but let them not go back to foolishness Conj. friendship and to the upright in heart (Selah)
85:13 Conj. and peace by the road he treads Conj. and making his footsteps into a road
86:2 Codd. save your servant; you are my God; who puts his trust in you; be gracious to me
86:8 Or of your works
86:8-9 Conj. of your deeds that you have done (or works that you have made). All nations shall come and do reverence before you and glorify your name, Lord.
86:11 Or Let me go by your truth
86:11 Var. let my heart delight to fear
86:16 Or give your strength
87 Conj. that there was originally more of this psalm or that the lines and half-lines were originally in a different order. Hebrew grammar peculiar
87:4 Or I mention
87:4 Or to those
87:4 Or those I know
87:5 Or is said
87:5 Var. But Sion shall be called mother, and a man was Conj. But I will call Sion mother, and a man was
87:6 Var.* will tell the story in
87:6 Var. in writing down peoples
87:7 Var.* will all have their abode in you Var. all my sources are in you
88:1 Codd. Jehovah, God of my salvation, on the day that I cry in your presence by night
88:1 Conj.* my cry is in your presence by night
88:5 (first part) Susp.
88:8 Or have driven
88:15 Susp.
88:15 (unnerved) The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
88:18 Or have driven
88:18 (last half) Susp.
89:2 Var. I have said
89:10 Or threw your enemies about
89:16 Codd. and rise aloft by your
89:43-44 Unc., susp.
89:47 Codd. Remember, I, what
89:48 Lit. of the hand of
89:50 Var. servants
89:50 Lit. my taking up in the fold of my cloak
89:50 Codd. all many, peoples
90:1 Var. abode of ours
90:3-5 Susp.
90:7 Or with consternation
90:9 Or like a thought
90:10 Or In the time of our years there are seventy years
90:10 Lit. and if with a
90:11 Codd.* and out of your fear your wrath Var. and suitably to your fear your wrath
90:13 Lit. how long
90:17 Var. over us; and give firmness to the work of our hands over us; and give firmness to the work of our hands
91:1 Conj. Happy one who
91:1 Conj. One shall live under the Most High’s screen, lodge
91:1 Lit. passes his nights under Shaddai’s shadow
91:2 Var.* I will call Conj.* Call (without pronoun)
91:3 Var.* from malignant pestilence
91:9 Codd. you, Jehovah, are my refuge, you have made
91:9 (citadel) Var. abode
92:8 Lit. you are aloft
92:9 Var. leaves out there do your enemies, Jehovah,
92:11 Codd. against me doing harm
93:2 Lit. you are from
93:3 Lit. were raising their dashing
93:5 Lit. trustworthy; holiness is
94:20 Or bench of malignity
94:21 Var. They start quarrels against
94:21 Conj. condemn a conscientious and innocent man
95:4 Or most distant parts
95:7 Conj. that words have been left out in copying
95:10 Var. of a generation Conj. of a stubborn generation
97:10 Codd. The lovers of Jehovah hate evil; he who guards Var. Lovers of Jehovah, hate evil! he who guards
99:4 Susp.
99:7 Codd. kept his lessons, and the
100:1 Or all the earth
101:2 (when will you) Susp.
102:5 Or to my skin
102:7 Codd. am watchful and have become like
102:8 (those who go wild against me) Susp.
102:13 Or because it is time to be gracious to her, because a date has come
102:14 Or for her rubbish
102:17 Susp.
102:17 (destitute) Unc.
103:1 Lit. soul, and everything inside me his holy name
103:4 Lit. with friendship and
103:5 Codd.* satisfies your jewel with
103:5 Lit. good things, you renewing
103:16 Or and they are . . . their place . . . of them
103:20 Or messengers of his
104:4 Lit. fire of blaze
104:7 Lit. it takes flight
104:14-15 Susp.
104:17 Var. have the cypress for their homes
104:19 Lit. made a moon for dates
104:22 Conj.* You cause the sun to rise
104:25 Lit. This is
104:25 Lit. and wide; there numberless
104:26 Or to play with
105:6 Var. sons of Jacob, his chosen ones
105:18 Lit. went into iron
105:22 Lit. tutor his elders
105:25 Lit. turned their hearts over to hate his
105:27 Var. He set
105:27 Lit. set the words
105:27 Conj. wrought his tokens in Egypt, and Conj. He wrought his tokens by their word, and
105:28 Susp.
105:33 Conj. smashed their fruit-trees
105:35 Conj. cleaned off
106:3 Lit. law
106:7 Codd. disobeyed by the sea, at the Red Sea
106:13 Lit. did not wait
106:20 Var. his glory
106:28 Or to dead men
107:3 Lit. out of countries
107:3 Conj. from north and from south
107:4 Codd. They wandered
107:17 Codd. Fools who because their criminal course and of their guilt were in misery,
107:23 Lit. gone down on the sea
107:29 Susp.
107:29 Lit. Sets up a tempest to
107:30 Lit. they calmed down
107:37 Lit. make fruit of produce
107:39 Or But they become
107:41 Lit. clans as the
108:2 (first words) Susp.
108:6 Codd. save, your right hand, and
108:9 (last part) Unc.
109:4 Susp.
109:4 Lit. but I prayer.
109:6 (wrong-doer) Susp.
109:13 Var. his name be obliterated in one generation
109:21 Or But you are my Lord Jehovah; take
109:21 Var. deliver me as befits the goodness of your friendship
109:24 Lit. are stumbling from
109:30 Lit. thank Jehovah greatly with my mouth
110:3 Var.* With you is willing service on
110:3 Var. in stately sacred garb, from
110:5-7 Susp.
110:5-7 Any of the verbs in these verses may be translated in the present tense
111:4 Lit. made memory for his wonders
112:4 Var. a kindly man and a tenderhearted man and a right-dealing man
112:10 Conj. wrong-doers’ hopes
114:4, 6 Lit. danced like rams
115:1 Lit. give honor
115:2 Or Why do
115:9-11 Var.* Israel, trust . . . House of Aaron, trust . . . You who fear Jehovah, trust
115:16 Lit. are heavens of Jehovah’s
116:1-2 Susp.
116:1 Lit. I love, because Jehovah hears
116:11 Lit. are lying
118 It is probable that in several psalms some of the verses were to be sung by different voices answering each other; it is especially probable in this psalm
118:10-12 (stand them off) Codd. a word of uncertain meaning, possibly meaning get them circumcised
118:13 Var. I did get a push
118:26 Or Blessed be he who comes in with Jehovah’s name
118:27 Unc.
118:27 Or Join festival with boughs
119 In the Hebrew of this psalm each of the first eight verses begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, each of the next eight with the second letter of the alphabet, and so on. Furthermore, the psalm uses eight words for the book of the law; these words are word, commandments, instructions, precepts, mandates, lessons, laws or judgments (in Hebrew law, judgment, and justice are the same word; in this psalm the word judgments sometimes refers to God’s judgments in action and not to the written book), and a word which is literally say, but may be translated either behest or promise according to which kind of say is meant—but it is sometimes uncertain which is meant, or rather the word is likely to include both at once. The rule is that each verse of the psalm has one of these names, and each set of eight verses has all the eight names. There are many exceptions to the rule that each set of eight verses has all the eight names; it is guessed that originally the rule was followed uniformly, and that where we find exceptions there have been mistakes in copying
119:28 Lit. drips with woe
119:37 Var. by your course
119:47 Var. greatly love
119:48 Susp.
119:49 Var. a word
119:52 Or your old-time laws
119:57 Lit. I say
119:57 Var. words
119:62 Or laws
119:66 Codd. the best of good sense
119:68 Or are good, and do good
119:76 Lit. be to comfort me
119:86 Lit. are faithfulness
119:91 Unc.
119:91 Lit. is your servants
119:96 Lit. is wide indeed
119:113 (undecided people) Unc.
119:117 Var. and gaze upon
119:119 Var. You (var.* I) count as dross all earth’s wrong-doers Conj. I count as dross all earth’s wrong-doers, I love
119:120 Lit. My flesh bristles for dread of you
119:121 Lit. done law and
119:122 (first part) Susp.
119:128 Var. Therefore I hold all mandates of everything to be upright, I
119:131 Lit. am eager
119:132 Lit. as is law
119:139 Var. Jealousy for you has
119:139 Var. words
119:147 Codd. am on hand in
119:147 Var. words
119:158 Or with loathing, who did not
120:6 Var. one who hates
122:3 Or built up like
122:5 Lit. there sit thrones for
122:6 Var. may your tents prosper
124:1, 2 Or been Jehovah that was
124:6 Or that he did not
124:7 Lit. Our soul is like that of
125:3 Var.* the wrong-doer’s scepter
126:1 Or restored Sion
126:4 Or Restore us
127:2 Lit. for you, you who get up
127:2 Lit. Eat bread of painstaking
130:2 Lit. hear my voice, let
130:4 Lit. is with you
130:5-6 Var. my soul hopes, and on his word I wait. My soul is for the Lord more than watchmen are for morning
130:6 Codd. than watchmen for morning, watchmen for morning
130:7 Lit. is friendliness
130:7 Lit. and redemption is much with him
131:2 Lit. on its mother, . . . on me
132:3 Lit. mount the bedstead of my bedding
132:6 Unc., susp.; conj. that something before this verse has been left out in copying
132:8 Lit. Up, Jehovah, for your resting-place
133 Unc., susp.
134:2 Lit. Raise your hands in sacred gesture
135:3 Lit. is delightful
137:3 (persecutors) Unc., susp.
137:5 Lit. without the words how to work
137:6 Lit. than the head of
137:7 Lit. Denude, denude, to the foundation in it
137:8 Lit. Ravaged daughter Conj.* Ravaging daughter
137:8 Last line susp.
138:1 Var. leaves out the name Jehovah
138:2 (last half) Susp.
138:2 Lit. made your say great
138:3 (last half) Susp.
138:8 Or do not slacken
138:8 Var. work
139:3 (itemize) Lit. winnow or measure
139:11 Var. darkness rub me
139:11 Codd. night shine in front of me
139:13 Lit. my kidneys
139:14 Var. that I am made fearfully mysterious
139:16 Susp., unc.
139:16 Codd.* germ
139:16 Lit. without the word many
139:18 (make an end) Codd.* wake up
139:18 Lit. still with you
139:19 Codd. make the words turn aside be addressed to the bloodstained men
139:20 Susp., unc.
139:20 Codd. falsely take up your cities (or foes)
139:24 (course that leads to pain) Susp.
140:3 Or spider’s venom
140:5 Codd. a trap for me, and cords; they have spread
140:7 Lit. on the day of arms
140:8-9 Susp.
140:8-9 Codd. work out. They are lofty. (Selah.) (Begin verse 9.) The heads of those who surround me, the mischief
140:10 Or into quicksands where they shall not get a footing
141:5-7 Susp.
141:5 Codd.* trounce me, friendship, and let him correct me
141:5 Codd. because still, and my prayer is in their
141:7 Var. Like one who splits and cuts open in (or on) the earth
141:7 Or scattered at the mouth of the world below
141:8 Conj. As for me, my eyes
141:10 Var. their own nets
141:10 Conj. Let them fall into the nets of their own wickedness while I
142:4 Var.* Look (without I)
142:4 Conj. look right and left, and there is
143:6 Lit. is to you as is a
143:9 (flee) Susp.
143:10 Or it will lead or you will lead
143:10 Var. a level road
144:2 Lit. My friendship and my fastness Susp.
144:8, 11 Lit. is a right hand of
144:12 Unc., susp.
144:12 Or in temple fashion
144:14 Unc., susp.
145:1 Lit. my God, King
145:2 Lit. On every day
145:5 Var. feats. The splendor of the glory of your majesty and the account of your wonders I will study. And they shall say
145:9 Or to everybody
145:12 Var. his feats . . . his empire
145:13 Lit. every generation and generation
145:13 Var. leaves out the second half of the verse
145:13 Var. trusty in all his
145:15 Lit. everything’s eyes
145:15 Var. give them their
146:4 Or goes out, he goes
146:4 Lit. to his soil
147:14 Lit. of the fat of wheat
147:17 Lit. who stands
147:20 Var. his laws he has not made known to them
148:14 Conj. the people of those who are near to him
149:5 (on their beds) Susp.
149:8 Lit. Binding their
149:9 Lit. written justice
149:9 Lit. it is a splendor for