1 Blessed is the man Who does not walk In the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand on the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of mockers;
2 Rather his delight is in the law of Jehovah, And in His law he meditates by day and by night.
3 And he will be like a tree Transplanted beside streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season, And whose foliage does not wither; And everything he does prospers.
4 The wicked are not so, But are like chaff, Which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment; Nor the sinners, in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For Jehovah knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish.
1 Why are the nations in an uproar, And why do the peoples contemplate a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand, And the rulers sit in counsel together, Against Jehovah and against His Anointed:
3 Let us break apart their bonds And cast their ropes away from us.
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; The Lord has them in derision.
5 Then He will speak to them in His anger, And in His burning wrath He will terrify them:
6 But I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.
7 I will recount the decree of Jehovah; He said to Me:You are My Son; Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, And I will give the nations as Your inheritance And the limits of the earth as Your possession.
9 You will break them with an iron rod; You will shatter them like a potter's vessel.
10 Now therefore, O kings, be prudent; Take the admonition, O judges of the earth.
11 Serve Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son Lest He be angry and you perish from the way; For His anger may suddenly be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in Him.
1 Jehovah, how many are my adversaries! Many are those who rise up against me!
2 Many are those who say of my soul, There is no salvation for him in God!
3 But You, O Jehovah, are a shield around me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
4 With my voice I call out to Jehovah, And He answers me from His holy mountain.
5 I lay down and slept; I awoke, for Jehovah sustains me.
6 I will not fear the myriads of the people Who have set themselves against me all around.
7 Arise, O Jehovah; Save me, O my God! Oh that you would strike all my enemies on the cheek; And break the teeth of the wicked.
8 Salvation is of Jehovah:Your blessing be upon Your people.
1 When I call out, answer me, O God of my righteousness; Make room for me when I am in straits; Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
2 O sons of men, how long will my glory be made a reproach? How long will you love vanity, will you seek a lie?
3 But know that Jehovah sets apart the faithful man for Himself. Jehovah hears when I call out to Him.
4 Be angry, yet do not sin; Consider in your heart upon your bed, And be silent.
5 Offer sacrifices of righteousness, And trust in Jehovah.
6 Many are those who say, Who will show us any good? Lift up upon us the light of Your countenance, O Jehovah.
7 You have put joy in my heart, More than when the grain and new wine of others abound.
8 In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O Jehovah, cause me to dwell in safety.
1 To my words give ear, O Jehovah; Consider my moaning.
2 Give heed to the sound of my cry, My King and my God; For to You do I pray.
3 O Jehovah, in the morning You will hear my voice; In the morning I will set forth my words in order to You, And I will watch.
4 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; Evil will not sojourn with You.
5 Those who boast will not stand Before Your eyes; You hate all workers of iniquity.
6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Jehovah abhors a man of bloodshed and deceit.
7 But as for me, in the abundance of Your lovingkindness I will come into Your house; I will bow down toward Your holy temple In fear of You.
8 O Jehovah, lead me in Your righteousness On account of those who lie in wait for me; Make Your way straight before me.
9 For there is no truth in their mouth; Their inward part is corruption itself; Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue.
10 Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Because of the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, For they have rebelled against You.
11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; Let them shout for joy forever; And may You spread a cover over them; And those who love Your name Will exult in You.
12 For You will bless the righteous man, O Jehovah; You will surround him with favor as with a shield.
1 O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your burning wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am languishing; Heal me, O Jehovah, for my bones are shaken,
3 And my soul is greatly shaken. But as for You, O Jehovah, how long?
4 Return, O Jehovah; deliver my soul; Save me for Your lovingkindness' sake.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of You; In Sheol who can give thanks to You?
6 I am weary with my groaning; Every night I cause my bed to swim; With my tears I dissolve my couch.
7 My eye is wasted because of grief; It has aged because of all those who vex me.
8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, For Jehovah has heard the sound of my weeping.
9 Jehovah has heard my supplication; Jehovah receives my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed; They will turn back; they will be put to shame suddenly.
1 O Jehovah my God, in You do I take refuge. Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me;
2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, Tearing it apart without anyone to deliver it.
3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, If there is unrighteousness in my hands,
4 If I have recompensed with evil him who was at peace with me (Rather, I have delivered him who vexed me without cause);
5 Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake me, And let him trample my life to the ground And lay my glory down in the dust.
6 Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger; Lift Yourself up against the overflowing wrath of those who vex me, And awake for me:You have commanded judgment.
7 And let the assembly of the peoples surround You, And over it return on high.
8 Jehovah will execute judgment on the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness And according to my integrity that is with me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, But establish the righteous man. For the righteous God Tries the hearts and the inward parts.
10 My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous Judge And a God who has indignation every day.
12 If one does not turn, He will whet His sword. He bends His bow and makes it ready.
13 And He prepares instruments of death against him; He has made His arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the evil man travails with iniquity; He conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood.
15 He digs a pit and hollows it out, Then he falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head, And upon the crown of his own head his violence comes down.
17 I will give thanks to Jehovah according to His righteousness, And I will sing psalms to the name of Jehovah the Most High.
1 O Jehovah our Lord, How excellent is Your name In all the earth, You who have set Your glory over the heavens!
2 Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To stop the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is mortal man, that You remember him, And the son of man, that You visit him?
5 You have made him a little lower than angels And have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 For You have caused him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, As well as the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of heaven and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O Jehovah our Lord, How excellent is Your name In all the earth!
1 I will give thanks to You, O Jehovah, with all my heart; I will tell out all Your wonders.
2 I will rejoice and exult in You; I will sing psalms to Your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at Your presence.
4 For You have upheld my right and my cause; You sit on the throne, judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemies are finished; they are in perpetual ruins; And You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has perished.
7 But Jehovah sits enthroned forever; He has established His throne for judgment.
8 And it is He who judges the world with righteousness; He executes judgment on the peoples with equity.
9 And Jehovah is a high retreat for the oppressed, A high retreat in times of distress.
10 And those who know Your name put their trust in You, For You have not forsaken those who seek You, O Jehovah.
11 Sing psalms to Jehovah, the Inhabitant of Zion; Declare His deeds among the peoples,
12 For He who avenges bloodshed remembers those who were slain; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 Be gracious to me, O Jehovah; look on my affliction from those who hate me, You who raise me from the gates of death,
14 That I may tell out all Your praises And, in the gates of the daughter of Zion, exult in Your salvation.
15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they have made; In the net that they hid, their own foot is caught.
16 Jehovah has made Himself known; He has executed justice; The wicked have been snared in the work of their hands.
17 The wicked will be turned back to Sheol, All the nations who forget God.
18 For not always will the needy be forgotten, Nor will the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 Arise, O Jehovah! Let not mortal man prevail; Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah; Let the nations know that they are mortal men.
1 Why, O Jehovah, do You stand far off? Why do You hide Yourself in times of distress?
2 Arrogantly the wicked hotly pursue the poor - May they be caught in the plots that they devise!
3 For the wicked man boasts of the desire of his soul, And the rapacious man curses, even despises, Jehovah.
4 The wicked man, according to the haughtiness of his countenance, Says, He will not require it; All his thoughts are this:There is no God!
5 His ways succeed at all times; Your judgments are on high, out of his sight; As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.
6 He has said in his heart, I will not be shaken; I will be in no trouble forever.
7 His mouth is full of curses and of deceit and oppression; Under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
8 He sits in the ambushes of the open villages; In hidden places he murders the innocent; His eyes secretly watch for the unfortunate.
9 He lurks in secret like a lion in its covert; He lurks ready to seize the poor; He seizes the poor, drawing them up in his net.
10 He stoops, he crouches, And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.
11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see this.
12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up Your hand. Do not forget the poor.
13 Why does the wicked man despise God And say in his heart, You will not require it?
14 You do see! For You observe mischief and vexation, To requite it with Your own hand. To You the unfortunate one commits his cause; You have been the help of the orphan.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man and the evil doer; Seek out his wickedness until You find no more.
16 Jehovah is King forever and ever; The nations have perished from His land.
17 You have heard the desire of the lowly, O Jehovah; You will establish their heart; You will cause Your ears to listen,
18 In order to execute justice for the orphan and the oppressed one, That the mortal man of the earth may terrorize no longer.
1 In Jehovah have I taken refuge. How can you say to my soul, Flee to the mountains like a bird?
2 For behold, the wicked bend the bow; They ready their arrow on the string To shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.
3 When the foundations are destroyed, What will the righteous man do?
4 Jehovah is in His holy temple; Jehovah - His throne is in heaven. His eyes behold; His eyelids try the sons of men.
5 Jehovah tries the righteous man; But the wicked man and him who loves violence, His soul hates.
6 He will rain down snares upon the wicked; Fire and brimstone and a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.
7 For Jehovah is righteous; He loves righteous deeds. The upright man will behold His face.
1 Save, O Jehovah; for the faithful man is no more, For the trustworthy have vanished from among the sons of men.
2 Each man speaks falsehood with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3 May Jehovah cut off all the flattering lips, The tongue speaking great things,
4 Those who said, With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own:Who is our lord?
5 Because of the devastation of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah; I will set him in the safety that he longs for.
6 The words of Jehovah are pure words, Silver refined in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.
7 You, O Jehovah, will keep them; You will guard them from this generation forever.
8 The wicked go about all around, While vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
1 How long, O Jehovah? Will You forget me continually? How long will You hide Your face from me?
2 How long will I bear concern in my soul And sorrow in my heart day after day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God; Enlighten my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, And my adversaries exult when I am shaken.
5 But I trust in Your lovingkindness; My heart will exult in Your salvation;
6 I will sing to Jehovah, For He has dealt bountifully with me.
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt; they commit abominable deeds; There is none who does good.
2 Jehovah looked down from heaven Upon the sons of men To see if there was anyone who had insight, Who seeks after God.
3 They have all turned aside; They are together perverse. There is none who does good; There is not even one.
4 Have they no knowledge, all the workers of iniquity, Who eat up my people as they would eat up bread And do not call upon Jehovah?
5 There they were in great fear, For God is among the generation of the righteous.
6 You put the counsel of the afflicted to shame, But Jehovah is their refuge.
7 O that the salvation of Israel might come forth from Zion! When Jehovah turns the captivity of His people, Jacob will exult, Israel will rejoice.
1 O Jehovah, who may sojourn in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?
2 He who walks in integrity And does righteousness And speaks truth from his heart.
3 He does not slander with his tongue; He does not do evil to his friend, Nor does he take up a reproach against his neighbor.
4 In his eyes a reprobate is despised, But he honors those who fear Jehovah. Should he swear to his harm, He does not change.
5 He does not lend his money on interest, Nor accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will not be shaken forever.
1 Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.
2 I say to Jehovah, You are my Lord; No good have I beyond You;
3 As for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent; All my delight is in them.
4 The sorrows of them who bartered for some other god will be multiplied; Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, Nor will I take up their names upon my lips.
5 Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; You maintain my lot.
6 The measuring lines have fallen on pleasant places for me; Indeed the inheritance is beautiful to me.
7 I will bless Jehovah, who counsels me; Indeed in the nights my inward parts instruct me.
8 I have set Jehovah before me continually; Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart rejoices and my glory exults; Even my flesh dwells securely.
10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, Nor let Your Holy One see the pit.
11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
1 Hear, O Jehovah, what is righteous; Give heed to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, Which is not made with lips of deceit.
2 May a judgment for me come forth from Your presence; May Your eyes regard equity.
3 You have examined my heart; You have visited me by night; You have tried me:You have found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth will not transgress.
4 Regarding the works of man, by the word of Your lips, I have kept myself from the paths of the violent man.
5 My steps have held fast to Your tracks; My footsteps have not slipped.
6 I call on You, for You will answer me, O God; Incline Your ear to me; hear my speaking.
7 Wondrously display Your lovingkindness, You who save by Your right hand Those who take refuge in You from them who rise up against them.
8 Guard me like the pupil of Your eye; In the shadow of Your wings hide me
9 From the presence of the wicked who oppress me, From my deadly enemies, who close in upon me.
10 They have shut up their fat hearts; With their mouths they speak arrogantly.
11 Now they have surrounded us in our steps; They have fixed their eyes on casting us down to the ground.
12 He is like a lion that is eager to tear, And like a young lion lurking in hidden places.
13 Arise, O Jehovah, confront him; bring him down. With Your sword rescue my soul from the wicked man,
14 From mortal men with Your hand, O Jehovah, From mortal men of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly You fill with Your treasure; They are satisfied with children, And they leave their abundance for their little ones.
15 As for me, in righteousness I will behold Your face; When I awake, I will be satisfied with Your likeness.
1 I love You, O Jehovah, my strength.
2 Jehovah is my crag and my fortress and my Deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my high retreat.
3 I called upon Jehovah, who is worthy of praise, And from my enemies I was saved.
4 The cords of death encompassed me; And the torrents of destruction assailed me.
5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah And cried out to my God. He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry before Him came to His ears.
7 Then the earth shook and quaked, And the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook about, For He was furious.
8 Smoke went up from His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals blazed forth from Him.
9 He bowed the heavens and descended, And deep darkness was under His feet.
10 He rode upon a cherub and did fly; He darted upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His hiding place, His pavilion around Him:Dark waterclouds, thick clouds of the skies.
12 Out of the brightness before Him there broke through His clouds Hail and fiery coals.
13 Then Jehovah thundered in heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice.
14 And He sent forth His arrows and scattered my enemies; And He shot forth lightning bolts and discomfited them.
15 The channels of the sea were seen, And the foundations of the habitable land were laid bare At Your rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16 He reached forth from on high; He took me; He drew me out of great waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy And from those who hate me, for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But Jehovah became my support.
19 He brought me forth to a place broad and free; He rescued me, for He took delight in me.
20 Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah And have not acted wickedly by turning away from my God.
22 For all His judgments were before me, And I did not turn His statutes away from me.
23 I was perfect toward Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
25 With the faithful You show Yourself faithful, With a perfect man You show Yourself perfect,
26 With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the perverse You show Yourself contrary.
27 For it is You who save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes You bring down;
28 For it is You who light my lamp; Jehovah my God lights up my darkness;
29 For by You I can run up against a troop; Indeed by my God I can leap over a wall.
30 As for God - His way is perfect ; The word of Jehovah is tried. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
31 For who is God other than Jehovah, And who is a rock but our God?
32 The God who girds me with strength And makes my way perfect,
33 Who makes my feet like hinds' feet And sets me on my high places,
34 Who teaches my hands to wage war So that my arms may bend a bronze bow.
35 And You have given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand supports me; And Your condescending gentleness has made me great.
36 You have broadened the places of my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.
37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them, And I did not turn back until they were consumed.
38 I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise up; They fell under my feet.
39 And You girded me with strength for war; You brought down under me those who rose up against me.
40 You also made my enemies turn their back to me, And I annihilated those who hated me.
41 They cried out, but there was no one to save them; They cried out to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.
42 Then I beat them like dust before the wind; Like the mud of the streets I pounded them.
43 You rescued me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the head of the nations; A people whom I had not known serves me.
44 At the mere hearing of a report, they obey me; Foreigners come cringing to me;
45 Foreigners are discouraged And come quaking out of their fortresses.
46 Jehovah lives; and blessed be my rock, And exalted be the God of my salvation,
47 The God who executes vengeance for me And subdues peoples under me,
48 Who rescues me from my enemies. Indeed You exalted me above those who rise up against me; From the violent man You delivered me.
49 Therefore I give thanks to You among the nations, O Jehovah; And I will sing psalms to Your name.
50 It is He who magnifies salvation to His king And executes lovingkindness to His anointed, To David and to his seed forever.
1 The heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament proclaims the work of His hands.
2 Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night tells out knowledge.
3 There is no speech and there are no words; Their voice is not heard.
4 In all the earth their line has gone forth, And their words to the end of the world. In the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,
5 And he, like a bridegroom, goes forth from his canopy; He rejoices like a mighty man running the course.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit is unto their ends; And there is nothing hidden from his heat.
7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, Restoring the soul; The testimony of Jehovah is faithful, Making the simple wise;
8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, Making the heart joyous; The commandment of Jehovah is clear, Enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of Jehovah is pure, Enduring forever; The judgments of Jehovah are truth And altogether righteous.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, Even much refined gold; Sweeter also than honey And the drippings of the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned; In keeping them there is much reward.
12 Who can discern his errors? Clear me of my secret faults.
13 Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; Do not let them have dominion over me; Then I will be blameless and cleared Of great transgression.
14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable before You, O Jehovah, my rock and my Redeemer.
1 May Jehovah answer you in the day of trouble; May the name of the God of Jacob set you on high.
2 May He send you help from the sanctuary And support you from Zion.
3 May He remember all your meal offerings And accept your burnt offering.
4 May He give you according to your heart's desire And fulfill all your intention.
5 May we shout victoriously in Your salvation And raise the banner in the name of our God. May Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now I know That Jehovah saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With mighty acts of salvation from His right hand.
7 Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; But we boast in the name of Jehovah our God.
8 They are humbled and fallen, But we have risen and stand upright.
9 Save, O Jehovah! May the king answer us when we call.
1 O Jehovah, in Your strength the king rejoices, And in Your salvation how greatly does he exult.
2 You have given him his heart's desire And have not withheld the request of his lips.
3 For You meet him with blessings of goodness; You have set a crown of refined gold on his head.
4 He asked life of You; You granted it to him:Length of days forever and ever.
5 His glory is great in Your salvation; You have laid majesty and splendor upon him;
6 For You have made him to be blessings forever; You have made him glad with rejoicing in Your presence.
7 For the king trusts in Jehovah; And because of the lovingkindness of the Most High, he is not shaken.
8 Your hand finds all Your enemies; Your right hand finds those who hate You.
9 You make them like a furnace of fire When Your presence appears. Jehovah swallows them in His anger, And fire devours them.
10 You destroy their fruit from the earth, And their seed from among the sons of men.
11 Although they intend evil against You, And they think up a scheme, they will not prevail.
12 For You make them turn their back; You aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
13 Be exalted, O Jehovah, in Your strength; We will sing and psalm Your might.
1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, From the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I call out in the day, but You do not answer; And in the night, but there is no rest for me.
3 But You are holy, You who sit enthroned Upon the praises of Israel.
4 In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You rescued them.
5 To You they cried out and were delivered; In You they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and not a man, A reproach of men and one despised by the people.
7 All who see me deride me; They sneer at me; they shake their heads, saying,
8 He committed himself to Jehovah; let Him rescue him; Let Him deliver him since He takes pleasure in him.
9 But You are the One who drew me forth from the womb, Who made me trust while at my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon You from birth; From my mother's womb You have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me, For trouble is near, For there is none to help me.
12 Many bulls surround me; The mighty bulls of Bashan encompass me.
13 They open their mouth at me, Like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a shard, And my tongue is stuck to my jaws; You have put me in the dust of death.
16 For dogs surround me; A company of evildoers encloses me; They pierce my hands and feet.
17 I count all my bones; They look, they stare at me.
18 They divide my garments to themselves, And for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But You, O Jehovah, be not far off; O my help, hasten to aid me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog;
21 Save me from the mouth of the lion; Indeed while I am in the horns of wild oxen, answer me.
22 I will declare Your name to my brothers; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
23 You who fear Jehovah, praise Him! All you seed of Jacob, glorify Him! And stand in awe of Him, all you seed of Israel!
24 For He has not despised nor detested The affliction of him who is afflicted; And He has not hidden His face from him; But when he cried out to Him, He heard.
25 From You comes my praise in the great assembly; My vows will I pay before those who fear Him.
26 The lowly will eat and be satisfied; Those who seek after Jehovah will praise Him - May your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth Will remember and return to Jehovah, And all families of the nations Will worship before You;
28 For the kingdom is Jehovah's, And He rules among the nations.
29 All the flourishing of the earth Will eat and worship. All who go down into the dust will bow down before Him, Even he who does not keep his soul alive.
30 A seed will serve Him; That which concerns the Lord will be told to a coming generation.
31 They will come and declare His righteousness To a people yet to be born, that He has done this.
1 Jehovah is my Shepherd; I will lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside waters of rest.
3 He restores my soul; He guides me on the paths of righteousness For His name's sake.
4 Even though I walk Through the valley of the shadow of death, I do not fear evil, For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, They comfort me.
5 You spread a table before me In the presence of my adversaries; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me All the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of Jehovah For the length of my days.
1 The earth is Jehovah's, and its fullness, The habitable land and those who dwell in it.
2 For it is He who founded it upon the seas And established it upon the streams.
3 Who may ascend the mountain of Jehovah, And who may stand in His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood Or sworn deceitfully.
5 He will receive blessing from Jehovah, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of those who seek Him, Those who seek Your face, even Jacob.
7 Lift up your heads, O gates; And be lifted up, O long enduring doors; And the King of glory will come in.
8 Who is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty! Jehovah mighty in battle!
9 Lift up your heads, O gates; And lift up, O long enduring doors; And the King of glory will come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts - He is the King of glory!
1 To You, O Jehovah, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in You; Do not let me be ashamed; Do not let my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed may all who wait on You not be ashamed; May those who deal treacherously without cause be ashamed.
4 Make Your ways known to me, O Jehovah; Teach me Your paths.
5 Guide me in Your truth, and teach me; For You are the God of my salvation; I wait on You all the day long.
6 Remember Your compassions, O Jehovah, And Your acts of kindness, for they are from of old.
7 The sins of my youth and my transgressions, do not remember; According to Your lovingkindness, remember me, For the sake of Your goodness, O Jehovah.
8 Jehovah is good and upright; Therefore He instructs sinners concerning the way.
9 He guides the lowly in justice And teaches the lowly His way.
10 All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth To those who observe His covenant and His testimonies.
11 For the sake of Your name, O Jehovah, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
12 Who then is the man who fears Jehovah? Him will He instruct concerning the way that he should choose.
13 His soul will dwell in prosperity, And his seed will possess the land.
14 The intimate counsel of Jehovah is to those who fear Him, And His covenant will He make known to them.
15 My eyes are continually turned to Jehovah, For He will bring my feet out of the net.
16 Turn toward me, and be gracious to me, For I am alone and afflicted.
17 Relieve the troubles of my heart, And bring me out of my distresses.
18 Look on my affliction and my suffering, And forgive all my sins.
19 Look on my enemies, for they are many; Indeed they hate me with a violent hatred.
20 Keep my soul, and deliver me; Do not let me be put to shame, For I take refuge in You.
21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait on You.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, Out of all his troubles.
1 Judge me, O Jehovah; For I have walked in my integrity, And in Jehovah I have trusted; I will not waver.
2 Examine me, O Jehovah, and try me; Test my inward parts and my heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
4 I do not sit with men of falsehood, Nor will I associate with hypocrites.
5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, Nor will I sit with the wicked.
6 I wash my hands in innocence And go around Your altar, O Jehovah,
7 Making myself heard with the voice of thanksgiving And telling out all Your wonderful deeds.
8 O Jehovah, I love the habitation of Your house, And the place where Your glory abides.
9 Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed,
10 In whose hand is a wicked scheme, And whose right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I walk in my integrity; Redeem me and be gracious to me.
12 My foot stands on level ground; In the assemblies I will bless Jehovah.
1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Whom shall I dread?
2 When evildoers come near me To devour my flesh, It is they, my adversaries and my enemies, Who stumble and fall.
3 If an army camps against me, My heart does not fear; If a battle arises against me, In spite of this I am confident.
4 One thing I have asked from Jehovah; That do I seek:To dwell in the house of Jehovah All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
5 For He will conceal me in His shelter In the day of trouble; He will hide me in the hiding place of His tent; He will raise me up upon a rock.
6 And now my head is lifted up Above my enemies who surround me. And I will offer in His tent Sacrifices of shouts of joy:I will sing and psalm to Jehovah.
7 Hear, O Jehovah, when I call with my voice, And be gracious to me and answer me.
8 When You say, Seek My face, To You my heart says, Your face, O Jehovah, will I seek.
9 Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in Your anger; You have been my help. Do not abandon me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 If my father and my mother forsake me, Jehovah will take me up.
11 Teach me, O Jehovah, Your way, And lead me on a level path Because of those who lie in wait for me.
12 Do not give me over To the desire of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen up against me, And those who breathe out threats.
13 I have believed That I would see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.
14 Wait for Jehovah; Be strong, and let your heart be encouraged. Yes, wait for Jehovah.
1 To You, O Jehovah, do I call out; My rock, do not be deaf to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry out to You, When I lift up my hands Unto Your innermost sanctuary.
3 Do not drag me away with the wicked And with the workers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their neighbors While evil is in their heart.
4 Repay them according to what they have done And according to the evil of their deeds; According to the work of their hands repay them; Return to them their due.
5 For they do not regard the acts of Jehovah Or the work of His hands; He will tear them down And not rebuild them.
6 Blessed be Jehovah, For He has heard the voice of my supplications.
7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults; And with my song do I give thanks to Him.
8 Jehovah is their strength; And He is a stronghold of salvation to His anointed.
9 Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; And shepherd them and carry them forever.
1 Ascribe to Jehovah, O sons of the Mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah glory and strength;
2 Ascribe to Jehovah the glory of His name; Worship Jehovah in holy splendor.
3 The voice of Jehovah is over the waters; The God of glory thunders, Jehovah over the great waters.
4 The voice of Jehovah is powerful; The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
5 The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars; Indeed Jehovah breaks the cedars of Lebanon in pieces;
6 And He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of Jehovah cleaves out flames of fire.
8 The voice of Jehovah shakes the wilderness; Jehovah shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of Jehovah causes the hinds to calve And strips the forests bare; And in His temple all say, Glory!
10 Jehovah sat enthroned at the Flood, And Jehovah sits as King forever.
11 May Jehovah give strength to His people. May Jehovah bless His people with peace.
1 I extol You, O Jehovah, for You have drawn me up And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.
2 O Jehovah my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.
3 O Jehovah, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have preserved me alive that I would not go down into the pit.
4 Sing psalms to Jehovah, you who are His faithful ones; And praise His holy memorial.
5 For His anger lasts but a moment, His favor, a lifetime; Weeping may linger in the evening, But a ringing shout goes up in the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I will never be shaken.
7 O Jehovah, by Your favor You had made my mountain stand strong. You hid Your face; I was troubled.
8 To You, O Jehovah, I called out; And to Jehovah I made my supplication.
9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious to me. O Jehovah, be my help.
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosened my sackcloth And girded me with rejoicing,
12 That my glory might sing psalms to You and not be silent. O Jehovah my God, I will praise You forever.
1 In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; Never let me be put to shame. Rescue me in Your righteousness.
2 Incline Your ear to me; Deliver me speedily. Be to me a rock of protection, A fortress, to save me.
3 For You are my crag and my fortress; Therefore for Your name's sake Lead me and guide me.
4 Bring me out of the net That they have secretly laid for me, For You are my protection.
5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit; Redeem me, O Jehovah, God of truth.
6 I hate those who regard vanities of falsehood, But I trust in Jehovah.
7 I will exult and rejoice in Your lovingkindness, Since You have seen my affliction; You know the distress of my soul.
8 And You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; You have made my feet stand in a place broad and free.
9 Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress. My eye is wasted away with grief, Indeed my soul and body.
10 For my life has been consumed in sorrow, And my years, in sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, And my bones have wasted away.
11 Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach, And especially so to my neighbors, And something dreaded to my acquaintances; Those who see me on the street flee from me.
12 I am forgotten, like a dead man out of mind; I am like a destroyed vessel.
13 For I hear the slander of many; Terror is on every side. When they take counsel together against me, They scheme to take my life.
14 But I trust in You, O Jehovah; I say, You are my God.
15 My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.
16 Cause Your face to shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness.
17 O Jehovah, do not let me be put to shame when I call out to You; Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in Sheol.
18 Let the lips of falsehood be made dumb, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride and contempt.
19 How great is Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have accomplished in the sight of the sons of men For those who take refuge in You!
20 You hide them in the hiding place of Your presence Apart from the conspiracies of men; You lay them away secretly in a shelter Apart from the contention of tongues.
21 Blessed be Jehovah, For He displayed His lovingkindness wondrously To me in a fortified city.
22 I, on my part, had said in my alarm, I am cut off before Your eyes; But instead You heard The voice of my supplications When I cried out to You.
23 Love Jehovah, all you who are His faithful ones; Jehovah guards the trustworthy, And recompenses abundantly Him who acts haughtily.
24 Be strong, and let your heart be encouraged, All you who hope in Jehovah.
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven; Whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not impute iniquity And in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night Your hand Was heavy upon me; My life sap was dried up As in the drought of summer.
5 I acknowledged my sin to You, And I did not cover my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah. Then You forgave the iniquity of my sin.
6 Because of this let everyone who is faithful Pray to You at a time when You may be found; Surely when great waters overflow, They will not reach him.
7 You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with the ringing shouts of deliverance.
8 I will instruct you and teach you concerning the way you should go; I will counsel you; my eye is upon you.
9 Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding; Whose trappings consist of bit and bridle to restrain them, Else they do not come near you.
10 Many are the sorrows that the wicked have; But he who trusts in Jehovah is encompassed by lovingkindness.
11 Rejoice in Jehovah and exult, O righteous ones; And give a ringing shout, all you who are upright in heart.
1 Rejoice in Jehovah, O righteous ones. Praise is becoming to the upright.
2 Give thanks to Jehovah with the lyre; With the harp of ten strings sing psalms to Him.
3 Sing Him a new song; Play skillfully with a joyous shout.
4 For the word of Jehovah is right, And all His work is done in faithfulness.
5 He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
6 By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, And all their host, by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathers the water of the sea like a heap; He puts the deep waters into storage places.
8 Let all the earth fear Jehovah; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was; He commanded, and it stood.
10 Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He frustrates the intentions of the peoples.
11 The counsel of Jehovah stands forever; The intentions of His heart stand from generation to generation.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom He has chosen as His own possession.
13 Jehovah looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.
14 From the site of His habitation He gazes At all the inhabitants of the earth,
15 He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who discerns all their works.
16 No king is saved by a great army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
17 A horse is a vain thing for salvation, And it cannot deliver by its great power.
18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon those who fear Him, Upon those who hope in His lovingkindness,
19 To deliver their soul from death And to preserve them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits on Jehovah; He is our help and our shield;
21 For in Him our heart rejoices, Because in His holy name we trust.
22 May Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, Even as we have hoped in You.
1 I will bless Jehovah at all times; His praise will continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul makes its boast in Jehovah; The lowly hear and they rejoice.
3 Magnify Jehovah with me, And let us exalt His name together.
4 I sought Jehovah, and He answered me; And He delivered me from all that terrified me.
5 They looked to Him and were radiant; And their faces will never be abashed.
6 This poor man called out, and Jehovah heard; And He saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of Jehovah encamps Around those who fear Him, and He delivers them.
8 Taste and see that Jehovah is good; Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
9 Fear Jehovah, you who are His saints; For there is no lack with those who fear Him.
10 The young lions hunger and starve, But those who seek Jehovah will not lack any good thing.
11 Come, children; hear me. I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.
12 Who is the man who desires life, Who loves having days in order to see good?
13 Guard your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.
14 Turn away from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of Jehovah are set toward the righteous, And His ears, toward their cry.
16 The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and Jehovah hears; And He saves them out of all their troubles.
18 Jehovah is near to those who are broken in heart, And He saves those who are contrite in spirit.
19 Many are the troubles of the righteous man, But Jehovah delivers him from all of them.
20 He keeps all his bones; Not one of them is broken.
21 Evil will slay the wicked, And those who hate the righteous man will be condemned.
22 Jehovah redeems the soul of His servants, And none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.
1 Strive, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me; Battle against those who battle against me.
2 Take hold of buckler and shield, And rise up as my help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and close up the way Against those who pursue me; Say to my soul, I am your salvation.
4 Let those who seek my life Be put to shame and humiliated; Let those who devise evil for me Be turned back and confounded.
5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, With the angel of Jehovah driving them on.
6 Let their way be darkness and slipperiness itself, With the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
7 For without cause they hid their net for me; Without cause they dug a pit for me.
8 Let destruction come upon him unawares, And let his net, which he hid, catch him; Let him fall into it, into destruction.
9 Then my soul will exult in Jehovah; It will rejoice in His salvation.
10 All my bones will say, Jehovah, who is like You, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, And the poor and needy from him who robs him?
11 Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me about things I know nothing of.
12 They repay me evil for good; I am bereaved in soul.
13 But I, when they were sick, Had sackcloth as my clothing; I afflicted my soul with fasting, And my prayer returned to my own bosom.
14 I conducted myself as if it had been my friend or my brother; Like one mourning for his mother, I bowed down gloomily.
15 But at my stumbling they rejoice and gather together; The attackers, whom I did not know Gather together against me; They tear at me and do not cease.
16 As profane mocking parasites, They gnash their teeth at me.
17 O Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, My precious life from the lions.
18 I will give You thanks in the great congregation; Among a mighty people I will praise You.
19 Do not let those who are wrongly my enemies rejoice over me; Do not let those who hate me without cause narrow their eyes at me.
20 For they do not speak peace, But devise words of deceit Against the quiet people of the land.
21 And they open their mouth wide against me; They say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it.
22 You have seen, O Jehovah; do not be silent. O Lord, do not be far from me.
23 Awake, and stir Yourself for my cause, For my claim, O my God and my Lord.
24 Vindicate me according to Your righteousness, O Jehovah my God; And do not let them rejoice over me.
25 Do not let them say in their heart, Aha! That is what we wanted. Do not let them say, We have swallowed him up.
26 May those who rejoice at my trouble Be ashamed and confounded together; May those who magnify themselves against me Be clothed with shame and humiliation.
27 May those who delight in the vindication of my righteousness Give a ringing shout and rejoice, And may they say continually, Jehovah be magnified, Who delights in the well-being of His servant.
28 And my tongue will declare Your righteousness And Your praise all day long.
1 Transgression speaks to the wicked Within his heart; There is no dread of God Before his eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, That his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; He has ceased being wise and doing good.
4 He plans wickedness on his bed; He sets himself on a way that is not good; He does not reject evil.
5 O Jehovah, Your lovingkindness is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches unto the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like the great deep; You preserve man and beast, O Jehovah.
7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Thus the sons of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 They are saturated with the fatness of Your house, And You cause them to drink of the river of Your pleasures.
9 For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.
10 Continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, And Your righteousness to those who are upright in heart.
11 Do not let the foot of the arrogant come upon me, Nor let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12 There the workers of iniquity are fallen; They are cast down and unable to rise.
1 Do not be incensed because of evildoers; Do not be envious of wrongdoers.
2 For they soon wither like grass And fade away like green herbage.
3 Trust in Jehovah, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself in Jehovah, And He will give you the requests of your heart.
5 Commit your way to Jehovah, And trust in Him; and He will act.
6 And He will cause your righteousness to go forth like light, And your justness like noonday.
7 Be still before Jehovah, and wait for Him; Do not be incensed because of him who enjoys prosperity on his way, Because of the man who performs his evil schemes.
8 Cease from anger and forsake wrath; Do not be incensed; it leads only to evil.
9 For the evildoers will be cut off; But those who wait on Jehovah, They will inherit the land.
10 And in a little while longer there will be no wicked man; Indeed, you will look diligently for his place, and he will not be there.
11 But the lowly will inherit the land And delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked man makes evil schemes against the righteous man And gnashes his teeth at him.
13 The Lord will laugh at him, For He sees that his day will come.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword And bent their bow, To cast the poor and the needy down, To slaughter those who are upright in their way.
15 Their sword will enter their own heart, And their bows will be broken.
16 Better is the little that the righteous man has Than the abundance of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, But Jehovah upholds the righteous.
18 Jehovah knows the days of the perfect, And their inheritance will be forever.
19 They will not be put to shame in a time of evil, And in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
20 But the wicked will perish, And the enemies of Jehovah will be like the glory of the pastures:They are consumed; in smoke they are consumed.
21 The wicked borrow but do not repay, But the righteous is gracious and gives.
22 For those blessed by Him will inherit the land, But those cursed by Him will be cut off.
23 A man's steps are established by Jehovah, And He delights in his way.
24 If he falls, he is not utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholds him by the hand.
25 I was once a young man; now I am old. Yet I have not seen the righteous man forsaken, Nor his seed seeking bread.
26 He is always gracious and lends, And his seed becomes a blessing.
27 Turn away from evil and do good, And abide forever.
28 For Jehovah loves justice And does not abandon His faithful ones; They are kept forever; But the seed of the wicked is cut off.
29 The righteous will inherit the land, And they will abide in it forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, And his tongue speaks justice.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; His steps do not slip.
32 The wicked man watches for the righteous man And seeks to slay him.
33 Jehovah does not leave him in his hand, Nor let him be condemned when he is judged.
34 Wait for Jehovah, And keep His way; And He will exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
35 I have seen the wicked man terrorizing, And spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.
36 Then someone passes by, and behold, he is not there; I search for him, and he is not found.
37 Observe the perfect man, and watch the upright man; For there is a future for the man of peace.
38 But the transgressors will be altogether destroyed; The future of the wicked will be cut off.
39 And the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah; He is their stronghold in a time of distress.
40 And Jehovah helps them and rescues them; He rescues them from the wicked, And saves them, for they take refuge in Him.
1 O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your indignation, Nor chasten me in Your burning wrath.
2 For Your arrows have sunk deep in me, And Your hand has come down heavy upon me.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh due to Your indignation; There is no wholeness in my bones due to my sin.
4 For my iniquities have passed over my head; Like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are odious and festering Due to my foolishness.
6 I am bent down and bowed utterly; I go about all day long mourning.
7 For my loins are filled with burning, And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am benumbed and crushed utterly; I cry out due to the groaning of my heart.
9 O Lord, all my desire is before You, And my groaning is not hidden from You.
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me; And as for the light of my eyes, neither is it with me.
11 Those who love me and those who are my friends stand aloof from my plague, And my relatives stand far away.
12 And those who seek my soul lay traps for me, And those who pursue my misfortune speak of destruction, And they contemplate deceit all day long.
13 But I, like a deaf man, cannot hear; And I am like a dumb man, who cannot open his mouth.
14 Indeed I am like a man who does not hear And in whose mouth there are no reproofs.
15 For in You, O Jehovah, do I hope; You will respond, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, May they never rejoice over me! When my foot slips, they magnify themselves over me.
17 For I am ready to stumble, And my pain is before me continually.
18 For I declare my iniquity; I am anxious because of my sin.
19 But my enemies are vigorous; they are strong; And those who wrongly hate me are many.
20 Those also who repay evil for good Are my adversaries because I pursue what is good.
21 Do not abandon me, O Jehovah; O my God, do not be far away from me.
22 Hasten to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
1 I said, I will keep my ways, So that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth When the wicked are before me.
2 I was dumb and silent; I held my peace, even from good; And my pain was stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me; While I mused, the fire burned; I spoke with my tongue:
4 O Jehovah, cause me to know my end, And the measure of my days, what it is. May I know how transient I am.
5 Behold, You have made my days as mere handbreadths, And my lifetime is as nothing before You; Surely every man at his best is altogether vanity.
6 Surely man goes about as a semblance; Surely they bustle about in vain:He heaps up riches yet knows not Who will gather them.
7 And now what am I waiting for, O Lord? My hope - it is in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the fool's reproach.
9 I was dumb; I did not open my mouth; For You have done this.
10 Remove Your plague from me; By the hostility of Your hand I am consumed.
11 With rebukes You chasten a man because of iniquity, And cause what is desirous to him to disappear like a moth. Surely every man is vanity.
12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; And give ear to my cry; Do not hold Your peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 Look away from me, that I may be cheerful, Before I go away and am no more.
1 I waited patiently on Jehovah, And He inclined to me And heard my cry.
2 Then He brought me up out of a pit of destruction, Out of the miry clay; And He set my feet upon a rock, Establishing my steps.
3 Then He put a new song in my mouth, A praise to our God. Many see it and fear, And they trust in Jehovah.
4 Blessed is the man Who makes Jehovah his trust And does not turn to the proud Or to those who turn aside after deception.
5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful deeds which You have done And Your thoughts toward us; They cannot be set in order unto You. Were I to declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to recount.
6 You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; You have prepared ears for Me; You do not require burnt offering and sin offering.
7 Then I said, Behold, I have come; In the scroll of the book It is written concerning Me.
8 I delight in doing Your will, O My God; Indeed Your law is within My inward parts.
9 I bear tidings of righteousness In the great congregation. Behold, I will not withhold My lips; O Jehovah, You know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness Within My heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.
11 You, O Jehovah, do not withhold Your compassions from me; May Your lovingkindness and Your truth Preserve me continually.
12 For evils encompass me until they cannot be counted; My iniquities have so overtaken me That I cannot see; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head; Thus my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; O Jehovah, hasten to help me.
14 May those who seek my life to destroy it Be put to shame and confounded together; May those who take delight in my misfortune Be turned back and humiliated.
15 May those who say to me, Aha! Aha! Be desolate because of their shame.
16 May all those who seek You Be glad and rejoice in You; May those who love Your salvation say continually, May Jehovah be magnified!
17 But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my Deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
1 Blessed is he who considers the poor; In the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.
2 May Jehovah keep him and preserve him alive; May he be blessed in the land; And do not give him over to the hdesire of his enemies.
3 Jehovah will sustain him on his sickbed; You make all his bed in his illness.
4 I said, O Jehovah, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.
5 My enemies speak evil against me:When will he die and his name perish?
6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself; When he goes out, he speaks it.
7 All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my misfortune.
8 Some evil illness, they say, has been poured out on him; And when he lies down, he will not rise again.
9 Even my familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
10 But You, O Jehovah, be gracious to me and raise me up That I may recompense them.
11 By this I know that You delight in me, That my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.
12 And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And You set me in Your presence forever.
13 Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, From eternity to eternity. Amen and Amen.
1 As the hart pants After the streams of water, So my soul pants For You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, For the living God. When will I come and appear Before God?
3 My tears have been my food Day and night, While they say to me all day long, Where is your God?
4 These things I remember, And I pour out my soul within me:That I passed through with the throng; I led them to the house of God With the voice of a joyous shout and praise, The festal multitude.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him For the salvation of His countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I remember You From the land of the Jordan and the Hermons, From Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep At the sound of Your water spouts; All Your waves and Your billows Pass over me.
8 By day Jehovah commands His lovingkindness, And by night His song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning Because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a shattering in my bones, My adversaries reproach me, While they say to me all day long, Where is your God?
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I will yet praise Him, The salvation of my countenance and my God.
1 Render judgment for me, O God; And plead my cause Before an unfaithful nation; From the deceitful and unjust man Deliver me.
2 For You are the God of my protection. Why have You rejected me? Why do I go about mourning Because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 Send forth Your light and Your truth; They will lead me; They will bring me to Your holy mountain And to Your tabernacles.
4 And I will go to the altar of God, To od my exceeding joy; And I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, The salvation of my countenance and my God.
1 O God, we have heard with our ears; Our fathers have recounted it to us, The work You did in their days, In the days of old.
2 You, by Your hand, Have dispossessed nations, but You have planted our fathers; You afflicted peoples, but You spread our fathers forth.
3 For they did not possess the land by their sword, Nor did their arm save them; Rather it was Your right hand and Your arm, And the light of Your countenance; For You delighted in them.
4 You are my King, O God; Command salvation for Jacob.
5 Through You we thrust back our adversaries; Through Your name we trample those who rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.
7 But You save us from our adversaries, And You put to shame those who hate us.
8 In God we boast all day long, And we praise Your name forever.
9 Nevertheless You have rejected us and humiliated us, And You have not gone forth with our armies.
10 You have caused us to turn back from the adversary, And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us over like sheep to be eaten And have scattered us among the nations.
12 You have sold Your people for nothing And have not gone high on their price.
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, A mocking and a derision to those around us.
14 You have made us a proverb among the nations, Something to shake the head at among the peoples.
15 All day long my humiliation is before me, And the shame of my face covers me,
16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the presence of the enemy and of him who avenges himself.
17 All this has come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, Nor have we been false to Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps deviated from Your way;
19 But You have crushed us in the place of jackals And have covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God Or spread out our hands to a strange god,
21 Will God not search this out? For He knows the hidden things of the heart.
22 But for Your sake we are slain all day long; We are considered as sheep for slaughter.
23 Awake! Why are You sleeping, O Lord? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24 Why do You hide Your face And forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul bows down to the dust; Our body clings to the earth.
26 Rise up; be our help, And redeem us for Your lovingkindness' sake.
1 My heart overflows with a good matter; I speak what I have composed concerning the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.
3 Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O mighty One, In Your majesty and Your splendor.
4 And in Your splendor ride on victoriously Because of truth and meekness and righteousness; And let Your right hand teach You awesome deeds.
5 Your arrows are sharp:The peoples fall under You; The arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness above Your companions.
8 All Your garments smell of myrrh and aloes, of cassia; From palaces of ivory, harpstrings have made You glad.
9 The daughters of kings are among Your most prized; The queen stands at Your right hand in the gold of Ophir.
10 Hear, O daughter, and see; and incline your ear; And forget your people and your father's house;
11 Thus the King will desire your beauty. Because He is your Lord, Worship Him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; The rich among the people will entreat your favor.
13 The King's daughter is all glorious within the royal abode; Her garment is a woven work inwrought with gold.
14 She will be led to the King in embroidered clothing; The virgins behind her, her companions, Will be brought to You.
15 They will be led with rejoicing and exultation; They will enter the King's palace.
16 In the place of Your fathers will be Your sons; You will make them princes in all the earth.
17 I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the peoples will praise You forever and ever.
1 God is our refuge and strength; A help in distress, He is most readily found.
2 Therefore we will not fear, Though the earth change, And the mountains slip into the heart of the seas;
3 Though the waters of the sea roar and foam; Though the mountains shake at its swelling.
4 There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she will not be moved; God helps her at the dawn of the morning.
6 The nations rage; the kingdoms are moved. He utters His voice; the earth melts.
7 Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our high retreat.
8 Come, see the works of Jehovah, How He has made desolations on earth.
9 He makes wars cease unto the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear to pieces; He burns the war wagons with fire.
10 Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted on earth.
11 Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our high retreat.
1 Clap your hands, all you peoples; Shout to God with the voice of a triumphant sound.
2 For Jehovah Most High is awesome:A great King over all the earth.
3 He subdues peoples under us, And nations under our feet.
4 He chose our inheritance for us, The excellency of Jacob, whom He loved.
5 God ascends amidst shouting; Jehovah, at the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing psalms to God, sing psalms; Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.
7 For God is the King of all the earth; Sing psalms with understanding.
8 God reigns over the nations; God sits upon His holy throne.
9 The princes of the peoples have been gathered As the people of the God of Abraham; For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.
1 Great is Jehovah, And much to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.
2 Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion, the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
3 God has made Himself known In her palaces as a high retreat.
4 For, behold, the kings have assembled themselves; They passed by together.
5 They saw; therefore they were astounded. They were dismayed; they hurried off in alarm.
6 Trembling seized them there; Writhing, like that of a woman in labor;
7 With an east wind You shattered The ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, So we have seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God. God will establish her forever.
9 We consider, O God, Your lovingkindness In the midst of Your temple.
10 As Your name is, O God, So is Your praise Unto the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice; Let the daughters of Judah exult Because of Your judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go around her; Count her towers.
13 Consider carefully her bulwarks; Pass between her palaces; That you may recount it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will guide us even unto death.
1 Hear this, all you peoples; Give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together;
3 My mouth will speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart will be that of understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will disclose my riddle upon the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, When the iniquity of those who supplant me surrounds me,
6 Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the multitude of their riches?
7 None can by any means redeem his brother Or give to God a ransom for him
8 (For the redemption of their soul is costly And must be given up forever),
9 That he would yet live always And not see corruption.
10 For he will see that wise men die; The foolish one and the senseless one perish alike And leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is that their houses will remain forever, That their habitations will remain from generation to generation; They call lands after their own names.
12 But man in honor does not remain; He is like the beasts that perish.
13 Such is the way of those who are self-confident, And of those after them who approve of their sayings.
14 Like a flock, they are appointed for Sheol; Death will shepherd them. And straight to the grave they will descend, And their form will be for Sheol to consume That there be no abode for them.
15 But God will redeem my soul From the power of Sheol, For He will receive me.
16 Do not fear when a man becomes rich, When the glory of his house increases.
17 For when he dies, he will take nothing; His glory will not descend after him.
18 Though he blessed his soul while he lived - And men praise you when you do good for yourself -
19 It will go to the generation of his fathers; They will never see light.
20 A man in honor but without understanding Is like the beasts that perish.
1 The Mighty One, God Jehovah, Speaks and summons the earth From the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3 Our God has come and will not be silent; Fire devours before Him, And around Him it is exceedingly tempestuous.
4 He calls to the heavens above, And to the earth that He may judge His people:
5 Gather My saints to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.
6 Then the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is Judge.
7 Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you:I am God, your God.
8 I will not reprove you because of your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are before Me continually.
9 I will not take a bull from your house Nor goats from your folds,
10 For every animal of the forest is Mine, The cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know every bird of the mountains, And I am aware of everything that moves in the field.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine and the fullness thereof.
13 Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, And repay your vows to the Most High;
15 And call upon Me in the day of trouble:I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.
16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes And take up My covenant in your mouth,
17 Seeing that you hate correction And cast My words behind you?
18 When you see a thief, you take pleasure in him; And your portion is with adulterers.
19 You let your mouth loose for evil, And your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother; You defame the son of your mother.
21 These things you do, and I keep silent; You think that I am altogether like you. I will rebuke you and set forth the matter in order before your eyes.
22 Consider this then, you who forget God, Lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver you.
23 Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies Me; And to him who sets his way right I will show the salvation of God.
1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassions blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me.
3 For I do know my transgressions, And my sin is before me continually.
4 Against You and You alone have I sinned, And I have done what is evil in Your sight. Therefore You are righteous when You speak; You are clear when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, You delight in truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part You would make known wisdom to me.
7 Purge my sin with hyssop, and I will be clean; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear gladness and joy, That the bones which You have broken may exult.
9 Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from Your presence, And do not take the Spirit of Your holiness away from me.
12 Restore to me the gladness of Your salvation, And sustain me with a willing spirit.
13 I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will turn back to You.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation; And my tongue will ring forth Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth will declare Your praise.
16 For You do not delight in sacrifice; Otherwise I would offer it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
18 Do good in Your good pleasure unto Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then You will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; Then they will offer bulls upon Your altar.
1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty one? God's lovingkindness endures continually.
2 Your tongue devises destruction; It is like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
3 You have loved evil rather than good, Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness.
4 You have loved all the devouring words, O deceitful tongue.
5 God will likewise break you down forever; He will take you and pluck you up from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living.
6 And the righteous will see it and fear, And they will laugh at him, saying,
7 Behold, this is that mighty man Who did not make God his strength, But trusted in the multitude of his riches And strengthened himself in his desire.
8 But I, like a flourishing olive tree In the house of God, Trust in God's lovingkindness Forever and ever.
9 I will give You thanks forever, For You have acted; And I will hope in Your name in the presence of Your faithful ones, For it is good.
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; There is none who does good.
2 God looked down from heaven Upon the sons of men To see if there was anyone who had insight, Who seeks after God.
3 All of them have turned back; They are together perverse. There is none who does good; There is not even one.
4 Have they no knowledge, the workers of iniquity, Who eat up my people as they would eat up bread And do not call upon God?
5 There they were in great fear, Where there was no fear. For God scattered the bones Of him who encamped against you. You put them to shame Because God has rejected them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel might come forth from Zion! When God turns the captivity of His people, Jacob will exult, Israel will rejoice.
1 O God, save me by Your name, And execute judgment for me by Your might.
2 O God, hear my prayer; Give ear to the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me, And those who terrorize seek my life; They do not set God before them.
4 Behold, God is my Helper; The Lord is among those who sustain my soul.
5 He will return the evil to those who lie in wait for me. Annihilate them in Your faithfulness.
6 I will offer a freewill offering to You; I will praise Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good.
7 For He has delivered me from all distress, And my eye looks triumphantly upon my enemies.
1 Give ear, O God, to my prayer; And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.
2 Give heed to me, and answer me. I grow restless in my complaint and moan,
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked man; For they drop iniquity upon me, And in anger they make me their enemy.
4 My heart writhes within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling have come upon me, And shuddering overwhelms me.
6 And I say, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away and be at rest.
7 Indeed I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness.
8 I would hasten my escape From the storm wind and the tempest.
9 Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and contention in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it, Upon its walls; And iniquity and trouble are in the midst of it.
11 Utter ruin is in the midst of it, And oppression and deceit Do not depart from its streets.
12 For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; Otherwise I could bear it. It is not he who hates me who magnifies himself against me; Otherwise I could hide myself from him.
13 But it is you, my equal, My close friend and my acquaintance.
14 We were in sweet counsel together; We walked with the throng in the house of God.
15 Let death surprise them; May they go down into Sheol alive. For evil is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
16 As for me, I call out to God, And Jehovah will save me.
17 Evening and morning and at noontime I complain and moan, And He hears my voice.
18 He has redeemed my soul in peace From the battle against me, For many are they who strive with me.
19 God hears and answers them - Even He who sits enthroned from of old - Because with them there is no change, And they do not fear God.
20 He put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He profaned his covenant.
21 Smooth were the buttery words of his mouth, But his heart was war; More soothing than oil were his words, But they were in fact drawn swords.
22 Cast your burden upon Jehovah, And He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
23 But You, O God, will bring them down Into the lowest pit. Men of bloodshed and deceit Will not live out half their days; But I will trust in You.
1 Be gracious to me, O God; for man tramples me; All day long he, fighting, oppresses me.
2 Those who lie in wait for me trample me all day long, For many are those who arrogantly fight against me.
3 When I am afraid, I trust in You.
4 In God, whose word I praise, In God do I trust, and I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
5 All day long they wrest my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather themselves; they lurk; They watch my steps, As they have waited to take my life.
7 Will there be deliverance for them in spite of their iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8 You have counted my wanderings. Put my tears into Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?
9 Then my enemies will turn back When I call; This I know, That God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise, In Jehovah, whose word I praise,
11 In God do I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
12 Your vows, O God, are on me; I will render thank offerings to You.
13 For You have delivered my soul from death, Indeed, my feet from stumbling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living.
1 Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me; For my soul takes refuge in You; Indeed in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge, Until the destruction passes by.
2 I call out to God the Most High, To the God who accomplishes all things for me.
3 He sends forth from heaven and saves me; He reproaches him who would trample me; God sends forth His lovingkindness and His faithfulness.
4 My soul is among lions; I lie down among those who blaze forth, the sons of men, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And whose tongue is a sharp sword.
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; Let Your glory be above all the earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; They have fallen into it themselves.
7 My heart is steadfast, O God; My heart is steadfast. I will sing, indeed I will sing psalms.
8 Awake, my glory; Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
9 I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Lord; I will sing psalms to you among the nations.
10 For Your lovingkindness is as great as the heavens; And Your faithfulness reaches the sky.
11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; Let Your glory be above all the earth.
1 Do you indeed, O judges, speak righteousness? Do you judge in uprightness, O sons of men?
2 No, in heart you perform injustice; You weigh out the violence of your hands on earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; They err from their birth, speaking lies.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that has shut its ear,
5 Which does not hear the sound of the charmers Or the wise spellbinder.
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Jehovah.
7 Let them melt like water that runs off. When he shoots his arrows, Let them be as though they were cut off.
8 Let them be like a snail that melts and goes away, Like a woman's miscarriage, which by no means sees the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the fire of the thorns, Whether green or burning, He will sweep them away.
10 The righteous man will rejoice when he sees vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And men will say, Indeed there is fruit for the righteous man; Indeed there is a God who judges on earth.
1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; Set me on high, secure from those who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, And save me from men of bloodshed.
3 For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; The strong gather themselves against me. Not because of any transgression of mine nor because of any sin of mine, O Jehovah,
4 Not for any fault of mine, they run and ready themselves; Awake to meet me, and see.
5 Indeed You, O Jehovah, God of hosts, God of Israel, Arise to punish all the nations; Have no mercy upon any who treacherously commit iniquity.
6 They return in the evening; They growl like a dog And go around the city.
7 Behold, they belch forth with their mouth; Swords are in their lips; For, Who, they say, hears?
8 But You, O Jehovah, laugh at them; You have all the nations in derision.
9 O my strength, I will watch for You; For God is my high retreat.
10 My God in His lovingkindness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly upon those who lie in wait for me.
11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget; Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
12 For the sin of their mouth, For the word of their lips, Let them even be taken in their arrogance, And because of the cursing and the lying that they speak.
13 Consume them in wrath; consume them so that they are no more; And men will know that God rules in Jacob Unto the ends of the earth.
14 They return in the evening; They growl like a dog And go around the city.
15 They wander about for food; And if they are not filled, they linger.
16 But I will sing of Your strength; And I will joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning. For You have been my high retreat And a refuge in the day of my distress.
17 O my strength, unto You I will sing psalms, For God is my high retreat, My God of lovingkindness.
1 O God, You have rejected us; You have broken out upon us; You have been angry. Restore us.
2 You have caused the earth to quake; You have split it open. Heal the breaks in it, for it totters.
3 You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink wine to stagger us.
4 You have given a banner to those who fear You, To be displayed because of the truth.
5 That Your beloved ones may be delivered, Save with Your right hand, and answer us.
6 God has spoken in His holiness:I will exult; I will divide Shechem And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine, And Ephraim is the helmet for My head; Judah is My scepter.
8 Moab is My washbowl; Upon Edom I will cast My sandal; Philistia, shout aloud because of Me.
9 Who will bring me into the besieged city? Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Will not You, O God, who rejected us? And will You not go forth, O God, with our armies?
11 Give us help from the adversary, For a salvation by man is vain.
12 In God we will do valiantly, And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.
1 Hear, O God, my cry; Give heed to my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth I will call out unto You When my heart faints; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
3 For You are a refuge to me, A strong tower before the enemy.
4 Let me sojourn in Your tent forever; Let me take refuge in the covering of Your wings.
5 For You, O God, have heard my vows; You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.
6 You will add days to the days of the king; May his years be like generation after generation.
7 May he dwell forever before God; Appoint lovingkindness and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
8 So I will sing psalms to Your name forever, As I repay my vows day by day.
1 My soul waits in silence for God alone; My salvation is from Him.
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, My high retreat; I will not be greatly shaken.
3 How long will you assail a man So that you may slay him, all of you, Like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
4 They only make plans to thrust him down from his dignity; They take delight in lies; With their mouth they bless, But inwardly they curse.
5 My soul, wait in silence for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, My high retreat; I will not be shaken.
7 On God my salvation and my glory depend; The rock of my strength, my refuge, is in God.
8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge to us.
9 Men of low degree are but a vapor; Men of high degree, a lie. In the balances they go up; Together they are less than a vapor.
10 Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly hope in robbery; If wealth increases, Do not set your heart on it.
11 Once has God spoken; Twice have I heard this, That strength belongs to God.
12 To You also, O Lord, belongs lovingkindness; For You repay every man according to his work.
1 O God, You are my God; I seek You diligently. My soul thirsts for You, My flesh faints in longing for You, In a dry and weary land without water.
2 So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary, Seeing Your power and Your glory.
3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips praise You.
4 Thus I bless You while I live; I lift up my hands in Your name.
5 My soul is satisfied as with the rich fatness, And my mouth praises You with lips of joyous shouting,
6 When I remember You while on my bed, When I consider You in the night watches.
7 For You have been my help, And in the shadow of Your wings I will shout for joy.
8 My soul pursues after You; Your right hand upholds me.
9 But those who seek my life to destroy it Will go into the lower parts of the earth;
10 They will be given over to the power of the sword; They will be the portion of foxes.
11 But the king will rejoice in God; Everyone who swears by Him will boast; For the mouth of those who speak falsehood will be stopped.
1 Hear, O God, my voice in my complaint; Preserve my life from the enemy's dread.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, From the throng of the workers of iniquity,
3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, Who have aimed their arrow, their bitter word,
4 To shoot in secret places at the perfect man. They shoot suddenly at him and do not fear.
5 They firm up for themselves an evil matter; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, Who will see them?
6 They seek out injustices, saying:We have completed a carefully sought-out plan. Indeed each man's inward thought And heart are deep.
7 But God will shoot an arrow at them; Suddenly they are wounded.
8 They are made to stumble over each other by their own tongue; All who see them shake their heads.
9 And all men will fear And declare what has been done by God, And they will ponder His work.
10 The righteous man will rejoice in Jehovah and take refuge in Him, And all the upright in heart will boast.
1 Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion; And to You is the vow paid.
2 O You who hear prayer, To You all flesh comes.
3 Iniquities prevail against me; As for our transgressions, You make propitiation for them.
4 Blessed is he whom You have chosen and bring near To dwell in Your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple.
5 By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth And of the remotest sea;
6 Who established the mountains in His strength, Girded with might;
7 Who stilled the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their billows, And the tumult of the peoples.
8 And they who dwell in the uttermost parts Are afraid of Your signs; You make the exitways of the morning and the evening Shout for joy.
9 You visit the earth and water it; You enrich it greatly:The river of God is full of water. You provide men grain, for so You have prepared the earth.
10 Saturating its furrows, settling its ridges, You soften it with showers; You bless its sprouting forth.
11 You place a crown on a year with Your goodness, And Your wagon tracks drop fatness;
12 The wilderness pastures overflow, And the hills gird themselves with exultation.
13 The meadows are clothed with the flock, And the valleys cover themselves in grain; They shout for joy; indeed they sing.
1 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;
2 Sing forth the glory of His name; Make glorious His praise.
3 Say to God, How awesome are Your deeds! Because of the greatness of Your strength, Your enemies come cringing to You.
4 All the earth will worship You And sing psalms to You; They will sing psalms to Your name.
5 Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land; Through the river they crossed on foot. There we rejoiced in Him.
7 He rules by His might forever; His eyes observe the nations:Let not the rebellious exalt themselves.
8 Bless our God, O peoples; And make the voice of His praise heard,
9 Who has kept our soul in life And does not allow our feet to slip.
10 For You have tried us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.
11 You have brought us into the net; You have put a heavy burden on our loins.
12 You have made men ride over our heads; We have gone through fire and water; But You have brought us forth into abundance.
13 I will come into Your house with burnt offerings; I will pay my vows to You,
14 Which my lips uttered And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.
15 I will offer to You burnt offerings of fatlings With the smoke of rams; I will offer cattle with goats.
16 Come, hear, all you who fear God, And I will recount what He has done for my soul.
17 To Him I called out with my mouth, And He was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I regarded iniquity in my heart, The Lord did not hear.
19 But indeed God has heard; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, Who has not turned my prayer away Nor His lovingkindness from me.
1 God be gracious to us and bless us; May He make His face to shine upon us;
2 That Your way may be known on earth, And Your salvation among all the nations.
3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let the peoples praise You, all of them.
4 Let the nations rejoice and shout for joy, For You will judge the peoples equitably And will guide the nations on the earth.
5 Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let the peoples praise You, all of them.
6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, blesses us.
7 God blesses us; And all the ends of the earth will fear Him.
1 Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered; And let those who hate Him flee before Him.
2 As smoke is driven away, You will drive them away; As wax melts before fire, The wicked will perish before God.
3 But the righteous will rejoice; they will exult before God And be glad with rejoicing.
4 Sing to God; sing psalms to His name; Triumph in Him who rides through the deserts - For Jah is His name - and exult before Him.
5 A Father to the orphans and a Judge for the widows Is God in His holy habitation.
6 God causes the solitary to dwell in a household; He brings the prisoners forth into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7 O God, when You went forth before Your people, When You marched through the desert,
8 The earth trembled, the heavens also dripped, At the presence of God; Sinai there quaked At the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You shed forth bountiful rain, O God; You confirmed Your inheritance when it languished.
10 Your living flock dwelt in the land; In Your goodness You provided for the poor, O God.
11 The Lord gives the command; The women who bear the glad tidings are a great host.
12 The kings of the armies flee. They flee! And she who abides at home Divides the spoil.
13 Though you lie among the sheepfolds, There are dove wings covered with silver, And its pinions, with greenish yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered The kings in the land, It snowed on Zalmon.
15 O mighty mountain, O mountain of Bashan, O many-peaked mountain, O mountain of Bashan:
16 Why do you look with envy, O many-peaked mountains, At the mountain on which God desires to dwell? Indeed Jehovah will dwell there forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, Thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, As at Sinai, in the sanctuary.
18 You have ascended on high; You have led captive those taken captive; You have received gifts among men, Even the rebellious ones also, That Jehovah God may dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who day by day loads us with good; God is our salvation.
20 God is to us A God of deliverance, And with Jehovah the Lord Are the goings forth even from death.
21 Indeed God will smash The head of His enemies, The hairy crown Of him who goes about in his guiltiness.
22 The Lord said, I will bring them again from Bashan; I will bring them again from the depths of the sea,
23 That you may bathe your foot in blood, That the tongue of your dogs may have their portion from the enemies.
24 They have seen Your goings, O God, The goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary:
25 Singers go before; players after; In the midst of virgins sounding the tambourines.
26 Bless God in the congregations, Even Jehovah, O you who are of the fountain of Israel.
27 There are little Benjamin, who rules them, And the princes of Judah in their company, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength; Strengthen, O God, that which You have done for us.
29 Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, Kings will bring a gift to You.
30 Rebuke the animals of the reeds, The herd of the bulls among the calves of the peoples, Trampling on those who lust after silver; Scatter the peoples who take delight in war.
31 Nobles will come out of Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out its hands to God.
32 O kingdoms of the earth, Sing to God, Sing psalms to the Lord,
33 To Him who rides upon the ancient heaven of heavens. Behold, He utters His voice, a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe strength to God; His excellence is over Israel, And His strength is in the skies.
35 You are awesome, O God, from Your sanctuaries. The God of Israel, He gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God!
1 Save me, O God; for the waters Threaten my life.
2 I sink in deep mire, And there is no place to stand; I have come to the depths of water, And the flood flows over me.
3 I am weary of my crying; My throat is parched; My eyes fail While I wait for my God.
4 More numerous than the hairs of my head Are those who hate me without cause; Mighty are those who would destroy me, Those who are wrongly my enemies. What I did not steal, I must then restore.
5 O God, You know my foolishness, And my sins of guilt are not hidden from You.
6 Do not let those who wait on You be put to shame because of me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts; Do not let those who seek You be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel.
7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Humiliation has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, And a foreigner to my mother's children.
9 For the zeal of Your house has devoured me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
10 When I wept, when my soul was in fasting, That became a reproach to me.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb to them.
12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the mocking song of those who drink liquor.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Your lovingkindness answer me, In the faithfulness of Your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; May I be delivered from those who hate me, And out of the depths of water.
15 Do not let the flood of water flow over me, Nor let the deep swallow me, Nor let the pit close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the abundance of Your compassions turn to me.
17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; hurry and answer me.
18 Draw near to my soul; redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies.
19 You know my reproach And my shame and my humiliation; All my adversaries are before You.
20 Reproach has broken my heart, And I am sick; I looked for pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
21 But they gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 May their table become a snare before them And a trap when they are at peace.
23 May their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; And make their loins shake continually.
24 Pour out Your indignation upon them; And may the burning fierceness of Your anger overtake them.
25 May their camp be desolate; May there be no one to dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom You have stricken, And they recount the pain of those whom You have wounded.
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, And do not let them come into Your righteousness.
28 May they be blotted out of the book of life, And may they not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and pained; May Your salvation, O God, set me on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song And will magnify Him with thanksgiving;
31 And it will be better to Jehovah than an ox Or a bull with horns and hooves.
32 The meek have seen it; they rejoice. You who seek God, let your heart revive.
33 For Jehovah listens to the needy, And He does not despise His prisoners.
34 Let the heavens and the earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah; And they will abide there and possess it.
36 And the seed of His servants will inherit it, And those who love His name will dwell in it.
1 O God, hasten to deliver me; O Jehovah, hasten to help me.
2 May those who seek my life Be put to shame and confounded; May those who take delight in my misfortune Be turned back and humiliated;
3 May those who say, Aha! Aha! Turn away because of their shame;
4 May all those who seek You Be glad and rejoice in You; And may those who love Your salvation Say continually, May God be magnified!
5 But I am poor and needy; O God, hasten to me. You are my help and my Deliverer; O Jehovah, do not delay.
1 In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; Never let me be put to shame.
2 In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; Incline Your ear to me and save me.
3 Be to me a rock of habitation for me to come to continually. You have given command to save me, For You are my rock and my fortress.
4 My God, rescue me from the hand of the icked, From the hand of the unjust and cruel;
5 For You are my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.
6 On You I have been sustained since birth; It was You who took from my mother's womb; My praise is continually of You.
7 I am like a wonder to many, But You are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth is filled with Your praise, With Your glory, all day long.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; When my strength fails, do not forsake me.
10 For my enemies speak concerning me, And those who watch for my soul take counsel together,
11 Saying, God has forsaken him; Pursue and lay hold of him, for there is no one to deliver him.
12 O God, do not be far away from me; My God, hasten to help me.
13 May those who are the adversaries to my soul Be put to shame and consumed; May those who seek my misfortune Wrap themselves in reproach and humiliation.
14 But I will hope continually And will add yet more to all Your praise.
15 My mouth will recount Your righteousness, Your salvation, all day long; For I do not know its full numbers.
16 I will come with the proof of the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah; I will remind men of Your righteousness, Yours alone.
17 O God, You have taught me from my youth; And until now I have declared Your wondrous deeds.
18 So even into my old age and greyheadedness, O God, do not forsake me, Until I have declared Your strength Unto the next generation, Your might unto everyone who is to come.
19 And Your righteousness, O God, is so high, You who have done great things. O God, who is like You?
20 You who have shown me Many great troubles Will revive me again And bring me up again From the depths of the earth.
21 You will increase my greatness And will turn and comfort me.
22 I will also praise You with the harp, I will praise Your faithfulness, my God; I will sing psalms to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will give a ringing shout When I sing psalms to You, And my soul, which You have redeemed.
24 My tongue also will declare Your righteousness all day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, They who seek my misfortune.
1 O God, give Your judgments to the king, And Your righteousness to the son of the king.
2 He will judge Your people in righteousness, And Your poor with justice.
3 The mountains will bear peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.
4 He will judge the poor of the people; He will save the children of the needy And crush the oppressor.
5 They will fear You as long as the sun endures And as long as the moon endures Throughout the generations.
6 He will drop like rain upon mown grass, Like abundant showers dripping on the earth.
7 In His days the righteous will flourish, And there will be an abundance of peace Until the moon is no more.
8 And He will have dominion from sea to sea And from the River unto the ends of the earth.
9 The desert dwellers will bow down before Him, And His enemies will lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands Will pay tribute; The kings of Sheba and Seba Will present gifts.
11 And all the kings will bow down before Him; All the nations will serve Him.
12 For He will deliver the needy man when he cries, And the poor man who has no one to help him.
13 He will have pity on the weak and needy, And the souls of the needy He will save.
14 From oppression and violence He will redeem their soul, And their blood will be precious in His sight.
15 So He shall live and to Him shall be given The gold of Sheba; And prayer shall be made continually for Him; He shall be blessed all the day long.
16 There will be an abundance of grain on the earth, Even at the tops of the mountains. Its fruit will wave like the forests of Lebanon, And those of the city will blossom like the foliage of the earth.
17 His name will be forever; As long as the sun endures, His name will spread; And men will be blessed in Him; All the nations will call Him blessed.
18 Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, Who alone does wondrous deeds;
19 And blessed be His glorious name forever; And may His glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
1 Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were nearly turned aside; My steps had almost slipped.
3 For I was envious of the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For they have no pangs in their death, And their body is well nourished.
5 They do not find themselves in the hardship of men, Nor are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride is a necklace for them, Violence covers them like a garment.
7 Their eyes bulge out from fatness; The imaginations of their heart overflow.
8 They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks about on the earth.
10 Therefore his people return here, And waters of abundance are drained by them;
11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge with the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the wicked; And always at ease, they heap up riches.
13 Surely I have purified my heart in vain, And I have washed my hands in innocence.
14 For I have been plagued all day long And chastened every morning.
15 If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
16 When I considered this in order to understand it, It was a troublesome task in my sight,
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.
18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruins.
19 How they are made desolate in a moment! They are utterly consumed by terrors.
20 Like a dream, when one awakes, You, O Lord, Upon arising, will despise their image.
21 When my heart was embittered, And inwardly I was pricked;
22 I was brutish and knew nothing; I was like a beast before You.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand.
24 You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward You will receive me in glory.
25 Whom do I have in heaven but You? And besides You there is nothing I desire on earth.
26 My flesh and my heart fail, But God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.
27 For behold, those who are far from You will perish; You destroy all who go about as harlots away from You.
28 But as for me, drawing near to God is good for me; I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may declare all Your works.
1 Why, O God, have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 Remember Your assembly, which You have purchased of old, Which You have redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance, And Mount Zion, where You dwell.
3 Lift up Your steps unto the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your assembly place; They have set up their symbols as signs.
5 It looked like when men bring up axes On the thicket of the trees.
6 And now they have struck down with hatchet and hammer Its carved work altogether.
7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
8 They said in their heart, Let us oppress them completely. They have burned down all God's assembly places in the land.
9 We do not see our signs; there is no longer a prophet, Nor is there anyone among us who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy despise Your name forever?
11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Bring it forth from the midst of Your bosom; destroy them .
12 But God is my King of old, Accomplishing salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea serpents on the waters.
14 You crushed the heads of the leviathan; You gave him as food to the creatures of the desert.
15 You broke open the fountain and the torrent; You dried up the ever-flowing streams.
16 The day is Yours; the night also is Yours; You prepared the moon and the sun.
17 You established all the borders of the earth:You formed the summer and the winter.
18 Remember this:The enemy has reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people has despised Your name.
19 Do not give the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast; Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
20 Regard the covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
21 Do not let him who is oppressed return ashamed. May the poor and needy praise Your name.
22 Arise, O God; contend for Your own cause; Remember how the foolish man reproaches You all day long.
23 Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries; The roar of those who rise up against You goes up continually.
1 We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, For Your name is near; men tell of Your wondrous deeds.
2 When I choose the appointed time, It is I who judge with equity.
3 The earth and all who dwell in it melt; I have established its pillars.
4 I said to the boastful, Do not boast; And to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn.
5 Do not lift your horn on high; Do not speak arrogantly with a haughty neck.
6 For neither from the east nor from the west, And neither from the south, does exaltation come;
7 For God is the Judge:He puts this one down and exalts that one.
8 For there is a cup in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine foams; it is full of mixture, And He pours from it; indeed its dregs will all the wicked of the earth Drain off and drink up.
9 But as for me, I will declare forever, I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob.
10 And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off, But the horns of the righteous man will be exalted.
1 God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
2 And in Salem is His tabernacle, And His dwelling place, in Zion.
3 There He broke the flashing arrows of the bow, The shield and the sword and the battle.
4 More glorious are You, More excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are despoiled; They slept their sleep, And none of the men of strength Have found their hands.
6 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse fall into deep sleep.
7 You, indeed You, are to be feared; And who may stand before You once You are angry?
8 You caused judgment to be heard from the heavens; The earth feared and was still,
9 When God rose for judgment, To save all the meek of the earth.
10 For the wrath of man will praise You; You will gird Yourself with the remainder of wrath.
11 Make vows and pay them to Jehovah your God; Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared.
12 He will cut off the spirit of the princes; He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
1 My voice calls out to God, and I will cry out; My voice calls out to God, and He will give ear to me.
2 In the day of my distress I sought the Lord; My hand was stretched out in the night, and it did not drop. My soul refused to be comforted.
3 I remember God, and I moan; I complain, and my spirit faints.
4 You hold open my eyelids; I am disturbed and cannot speak.
5 I consider the days of old, The years of ancient times;
6 I remember my song in the night; I muse with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches.
7 Will the Lord cast us off forever, And will He never be favorable to us again?
8 Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has the promise come to an end for all generations?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Or has He in anger shut up His compassions?
10 Then I said, This is my infirmity; These are the years given me from the right hand of the Most High.
11 I will bring to remembrance the deeds of Jehovah, For I will remember Your wonders from of old.
12 And I will meditate on all that You have done And muse on Your doings.
13 O God, Your way is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a god as God?
14 You are the God who does wonders; You have made known Your strength among the peoples.
15 You redeemed Your people with Your arm, The sons of Jacob and Joseph.
16 The waters saw You, O God; The waters saw You; they were afraid; Indeed the depths trembled.
17 The clouds poured forth water; The skies sent forth a sound; Indeed Your arrows went here and there.
18 The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; Lightning illuminated the world; The earth trembled and quaked.
19 Your way was in the sea, And Your paths in the great waters; And Your footsteps were not known.
20 You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
1 Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,
3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have related to us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, But will relate to the generation to come The praises of Jehovah and His strength And His wondrous deeds that He has done.
5 Indeed He has established a testimony in Jacob And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come, The children to be born, may know them, Who should arise and relate them to their children;
7 That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the deeds of God, But observe His commandments;
8 That they might not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set their heart right, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The children of Ephraim, armed archers with bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
10 They did not keep the covenant of God, And they refused to walk in His law.
11 And they forgot His doings And His wondrous deeds that He had shown them.
12 He did something wonderful in the sight of their fathers In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the water stand as a heap.
14 And He led them with the cloud by day And all the night with a light of fire.
15 He split rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink, as from the depths.
16 He also brought forth streams from the rock And made water run down like rivers.
17 Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18 And they put God to the test in their heart, By asking for food according to their desire.
19 They also spoke against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, He struck the rock, And water gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can He also give us bread, Or provide meat for His people?
21 Therefore Jehovah heard and was angry. And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And also anger went up against Israel;
22 Because they did not believe in God, And they did not trust in His salvation.
23 Yet He commanded the skies above And opened the doors of heaven;
24 And He rained down upon them manna to eat And gave them the food of heaven.
25 Man ate the bread of the mighty; He sent them full provision.
26 He made the east wind blow in the heavens And guided the south wind by His strength.
27 And He rained upon them meat like dust, And winged birds like the sand of the seas.
28 And He made it fall in the midst of their camp, Around their habitations.
29 So they ate and were well filled; Indeed what they desired He brought to them.
30 They were not estranged from what they desired; Their food was still in their mouths
31 When the anger of God went up against them And slew some of their fattest ones And struck down the choice men of Israel.
32 In spite of all this they still sinned And did not believe in His wondrous deeds.
33 Therefore He consumed their days with vanity, And their years with terror.
34 When He slew them, they inquired after Him, And they returned and diligently sought God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God, their Redeemer.
36 But they flattered Him with their mouth And lied to Him with their tongue.
37 For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful to His covenant.
38 But He, being merciful, forgave their iniquity And did not destroy them; Indeed He turned back His anger many times And did not stir up all His wrath.
39 And He remembered that they were flesh, A wind that goes away and does not return.
40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness And grieved Him in the desert!
41 And they repeatedly put God to the test And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember His hand, The day when He ransomed them from the adversary;
43 When He set His signs in Egypt And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
44 And He turned their rivers into blood, As well as their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 He sent among them a swarm offlies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
46 And He gave their increase to the consuming locust, And their labor to the swarming locust.
47 And He killed their vines with hail, And their sycamores with ice stones.
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail And their herds to the lightning bolts.
49 He sent among them the burning fierceness of His anger, Overflowing wrath and indignation and trouble, A mission of angels of evils.
50 He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence.
51 And He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The first of their vigor in the tents of Ham.
52 But He set forth His people like sheep And led them like a flock in the wilderness.
53 And He led them to safety, so that they did not fear; But the sea covered their enemies.
54 And He brought them forth to His holy border, The mountain, which His right hand had acquired.
55 And He drove out the nations before them And allotted them as an inheritance by line, And He made the tribes of Israel dwell there in their tents.
56 Yet they put Him to the test and rebelled against God the Most High, And did not keep His testimonies.
57 And they turned back and dealt treacherously, as their fathers had done; They turned aside like a deceitfulbow.
58 Indeed they provoked Him to anger with their high places And made Him jealous with their graven images.
59 God heard, and He was angered; And He greatly abhorred Israel.
60 Thus He forsook the tabernacle in hiloh, The tent in which He dwelt among men;
61 And He gave over His ark into captivity, And His glory into the hand of the adversary.
62 He also delivered His people to the sword And was angry with His inheritance.
63 Fire devoured their young men, And their virgins had no marriage song.
64 Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows did not lament.
65 Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
66 And He struck His adversaries and sent them back; He put an everlasting reproach upon them.
67 And He rejected the tent of Joseph, And the tribe of Ephraim He did not choose.
68 Rather He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth that He has founded forever.
70 Moreover He chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;
71 From following after the ewes He brought him To shepherd Jacob His people And Israel His inheritance.
72 And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
1 O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; They have defiled Your holy temple; They have turned Jerusalem into heaps.
2 They have given the dead bodies of Your servants As food for the birds of heaven, The flesh of Your saints to the animals of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them.
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A mocking and a derision to those around us.
5 How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out Your wrath upon the nations Who do not know You, And upon the kingdoms Who do not call upon Your name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob And have desolated his habitation.
8 Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; May Your compassions quickly meet us, For we have been brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, For the glory of Your name; And deliver us and expiate our sins, For Your name's sake.
10 Why should the nations say, Where is their God? May the avenging of the blood of Your servants, which has been poured out, Be known among the nations in our sight.
11 May the sighing of the prisoner come before You. According to the greatness of Your power preserve those appointed to die,
12 And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, with which they have reproached You, O Lord.
13 And we, Your people and the sheep of Your pasture, Will give You thanks forever; From generation to generation we will tell out Your praise.
1 O Shepherd of Israel, give ear, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who sit between the cherubim, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh Stir up Your might, And come to save us.
3 O God, restore us; And cause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.
4 O Jehovah God of hosts, How long will You fume Against the prayer of Your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears And have made them drink tears in large measure.
6 You have made us a cause of strife to our neighbors, And our enemies deride us among themselves.
7 O God of hosts, restore us; And cause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; You drove out nations and planted it;
9 You cleared the ground before it, And it took deep root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow, And its boughs were like the cedars of God.
11 It put forth its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.
12 Why have You broken down its hedges, So that all who pass by on the way pluck it?
13 The boar from the forest ravages it, And that which moves through the field feeds on it.
14 O God of hosts, turn, we beseech You; Look down from heaven and see, And visit this vine,
15 Even the stock which Your right hand has planted And the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.
16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
17 Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, Upon the son of man whom You have strengthened for Yourself;
18 Then we will not turn back from You. Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
19 O Jehovah God of hosts, restore us; Cause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.
1 Sing for joy to God our strength; Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
2 Lift up a song and sound the tambourine, The pleasant lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For that is a statute of Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He appointed it as a testimony in Joseph When He went out over the land of Egypt. I heard a language that I did not know:
6 I turned your shoulder from the burden; Your hands were freed from the basket.
7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you from the secret place of thunder; I proved you at the waters of Meribah.
8 Hear, O My people, and I will testify against you:O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
9 There shall be no strange god among you, Neither shall you worship any foreign god.
10 I am Jehovah your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel would not consent to Me.
12 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart:They walked after their own counsels.
13 Oh that My people had listened to Me, That Israel had walked in My ways!
14 I would have soon subdued their enemies And turned My hand against their adversaries.
15 Those who hate Jehovah would have come cringing to Him, And their time would be forever.
16 And He would have fed them with the finest of wheat; Indeed with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you.
1 God stands in the congregation of God; He judges in the midst of the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly And respect the persons of the wicked?
3 Judge the poor and the orphan; Execute justice for the afflicted and the destitute;
4 Rescue the poor and the needy; Deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 You do not know, nor do you understand; You go about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 I said, You are gods, And all of you are sons of the Most High.
7 Nevertheless you will die like men And fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God; judge the earth; For You will inherit all the nations.
1 O God, do not keep silent; Do not be quiet, and do not be still, O God.
2 For, behold, Your enemies are in tumult, And those who hate You lift up their heads.
3 They devise crafty counsel against Your people, And conspire against Your hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come and let us destroy them from being a nation, That the name of Israel may no longer be remembered.
5 For they have conspired together with one heart; It is against You that they have made an alliance:
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia along with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria is also joined with them; They have been a help to the children of Lot.
9 Do with them as with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin, at the brook Kishon:
10 They were destroyed at Endor; They became dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, Let us possess for ourselves The habitations of God.
13 O my God, make them like a tumbleweed, Like stubble before the wind.
14 Like fire that burns a forest And like a flame that sets mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest, And terrify them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Jehovah.
17 May they be ashamed and dismayed forever, And may they be confounded and perish;
18 That they may know that You alone, whose name is Jehovah, Are the Most High over all the earth.
1 How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
2 My soul longs, indeed even faints, For the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out To the living God.
3 At Your two altars even the sparrow has found a home; And the swallow, a nest for herself, Where she may lay her young, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; They will yet be praising You.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6 Passing through the valley of Baca, They make it a spring; Indeed the early rain covers it with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength; Each appears before God in Zion.
8 O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob.
9 Behold our shield, O God; And look upon the face of Your anointed.
10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand; I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield; Jehovah gives grace and glory; He does not withhold anything good From those who walk uprightly.
12 O Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man Who trusts in You.
1 You have been pleased, O Jehovah, with Your land; You have turned the captivity of Jacob.
2 You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin.
3 You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.
4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
5 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You extend Your anger from generation to generation?
6 Will You not again revive us, That Your people may rejoice in You?
7 Show us, O Jehovah, Your lovingkindness, And grant us Your salvation.
8 I will hear what God Jehovah will speak, For He will speak peace To His people and to His faithful ones; But let them not turn again unto folly.
9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, That glory may dwell in our land.
10 Lovingkindness and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth has sprung forth from the earth, And righteousness has looked down from heaven.
12 Indeed Jehovah will give what is good, And our land will give its increase.
13 Righteousness will go before Him And make His footsteps a way to walk in.
1 Incline Your ear, O Jehovah; answer me; For I am poor and needy.
2 Keep my soul; for I am faithful; Save Your servant who trusts in You, O You who are my God.
3 Be gracious to me, O Lord; For to You do I call out all day long.
4 Cause the soul of Your servant to rejoice, For unto You, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.
6 Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer, And give heed to the voice of my supplications.
7 In the day of my distress I call upon You, For You answer me.
8 There is none like You among the gods, O Lord; Nor are there any works like Yours.
9 All the nations which You have made will come And worship before You, O Lord; And they will glorify Your name.
10 For You are great, and You do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.
11 Teach me, O Jehovah, Your way; I will walk in Your truth. Make my heart single in fearing Your name.
12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; And I will glorify Your name forever.
13 For Your lovingkindness is great toward me, And You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
14 O God, the proud have risen up against me, And a company of violent men seek my life; And they do not set You before them.
15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, Long-suffering and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
16 Turn to me and be gracious to me; Give Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your female servant.
17 Show me a token of goodness, That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; For You, O Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me.
1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 Jehovah loves the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as those who know Me; Behold, Philistia and Tyre along with Cush:This one was born there, they say .
5 But of Zion it will be said, This one and that one were born in her, And the Most High Himself will establish her.
6 Jehovah will count When He records the peoples:This One was born there.
7 Then singing as well as dancing, they will say, All my springs are in you.
1 O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.
2 May my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am accounted among those who go down into the pit; I am like a man without any help,
5 Abandoned among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand.
6 You have put me in the lowest pit, In the dark places, in the depths.
7 Your wrath lies heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves.
8 You have put my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut in and cannot go out.
9 My eye wastes away at the affliction; I have called out to You, O Jehovah, every day; I have spread out my hands to You.
10 Will You perform wonders for the dead? Will the deceased rise up and praise You?
11 Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness, Or Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But I, O Jehovah, have cried out to You; And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14 Why, O Jehovah, have You rejected my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
15 I have been afflicted and about to die since my youth; I bear Your terrors; I am overwhelmed.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off.
17 They surrounded me like water all day long; They altogether encompassed me.
18 You have put far from me Lover and friend; My acquaintances are in darkness.
1 I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah forever; From generation to generation I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.
2 For I have said, Lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens themselves You will establish Your faithfulness.
3 I have made a covenant with My chosen one; I have sworn to David My servant:
4 I will establish your seed forever, And I will build up your throne from generation to generation.
5 And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Jehovah, Indeed Your faithfulness in the congregation of the holy ones.
6 For who in the skies can be compared to Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah,
7 Like God, greatly feared in the council of the holy ones And awesome beyond all around Him?
8 O Jehovah God of hosts, who is like You, the mighty Jah? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
9 You rule the swelling of the sea:When its waves rise up, You still them.
10 You crushed Rahab like one slain; You scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strength.
11 The heavens are Yours; the earth also is Yours; The world and its fullness You have founded.
12 You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
13 You have an arm with might; Your hand is strong; Your right hand is high.
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before Your face.
15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your countenance.
16 In Your name they exult all day long, And in Your righteousness they are exalted.
17 For You are the glory of their strength, And in Your favor our horn is exalted.
18 For our shield belongs to Jehovah, And our king, to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then You spoke in vision Of Your Holy One, and You said, I have given help to One who is mighty; I have exalted One chosen from My people.
20 I have found David My Servant; With My holy oil I have anointed Him,
21 With whom My hand will be established; My arm will also strengthen Him.
22 The enemy will not exact anything from Him, Nor will the son of wickedness afflict Him.
23 And I will crush His adversaries before Him, And I will strike those who hate Him.
24 And My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with Him, And in My name His horn will be exalted.
25 And I will set His hand on the sea And His right hand on the rivers.
26 He will call upon Me, saying, You are My Father, My God and the rock of My salvation.
27 I will also make Him the Firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
28 I will keep My lovingkindness for Him forever, And My covenant will stand firm with Him.
29 And I will establish His seed forever, And His throne as the days of heaven.
30 If His children forsake My law And do not walk in My ordinances,
31 If they profane My statutes And do not keep My commandments,
32 I will punish their transgression with a rod And their iniquity with stripes.
33 But My lovingkindness I will not utterly take away from Him, Nor will I be false to My own faithfulness.
34 I will not profane My covenant, Nor will I change what has gone forth from My lips.
35 Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.
36 His seed shall endure forever, And His throne, like the sun before Me;
37 It shall be established forever like the moon; And the witness in the skies is firm.
38 But You have cast off and rejected; You have been angry with Your anointed.
39 You have abhorred the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
41 All who pass by on the way plunder him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Indeed You have turned back the edge of his sword And have not made him stand in the battle.
44 You have made his brightness cease And have cast down his throne to the ground.
45 You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame.
46 How long, O Jehovah? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long will Your wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is - For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!
48 What man will live and not see death? Will he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?
49 Where are Your former acts of lovingkindness, O Lord, Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,
51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
52 Blessed be Jehovah forever. Amen and Amen.
1 O Lord, You have been our dwelling place In all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, And before You gave birth to the earth and the world, Indeed from eternity to eternity, You are God.
3 You return man to dust And say, Return, you sons of men.
4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by And like a watch in the night.
5 You sweep them away as with a rain flood; they are as in a sleep:In the morning they are like grass that comes up anew.
6 In the morning it flourishes and comes up anew; In the evening it is cut down, and it dries up.
7 For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we have been troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
9 For all our days have passed away in Your overflowing wrath; We bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The days of our years are seventy years, Or, if because of strength, eighty years; But their pride is labor and sorrow, For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger, And Your overflowing wrath according to the fear that is due You?
12 Teach us then to number our days That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Return, O Jehovah! How long? And repent concerning Your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness That we may give a ringing shout and rejoice all our days.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days that You have afflicted us, According to the years that we have seen evil.
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your splendor, to their children.
17 And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands upon us; Indeed the work of our hands, establish it.
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I say of Jehovah, My refuge and My fortress, My God in whom I trust!
3 For He will deliver You From the snare of the fowler, From the deadly pestilence.
4 With His pinions He will cover You, And under His wings You will take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler.
5 You will not be afraid of the terror by night, Or of the arrow that flies by day,
6 Or of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.
7 A thousand will fall at Your side, And ten thousand at Your right hand; But it will not come near to You.
8 You will only look on with Your eyes And see the recompense of the wicked.
9 For You have made Jehovah, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, Your habitation,
10 No evil will befall You, Nor will any plague come near Your tent.
11 For He will give His angels charge concerning You To keep You in all Your ways.
12 They will bear You up in their hands, Lest You dash Your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; You will trample the young lion and the serpent.
14 Because He has set His love upon Me, I will rescue Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name.
15 He will call upon Me, and I will answer Him. I will be with Him in distress; I will deliver Him and honor Him.
16 With an extension of His days I will satisfy Him, And I will show Him My salvation.
1 It is good to give thanks to Jehovah And to sing psalms to Your name, O Most High;
2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning And Your faithfulness in the nights,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon a harp, Upon the higgaion of the lyre.
4 For You have made me rejoice, O Jehovah, because of what You have done; Because of the works of Your hands I will shout for joy.
5 How great are Your works, O Jehovah! So very deep are Your thoughts!
6 A senseless man does not know them, Nor does a fool understand them.
7 When the wicked sprout like grass, And all the workers of iniquity blossom, It is so that they may be destroyed forever.
8 But You are on high forever, O Jehovah.
9 For behold, Your enemies, O Jehovah; For behold, Your enemies will perish; All the workers of iniquity will be scattered.
10 But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; I am anointed with fresh oil.
11 And my eye has seen its desire for my enemies; My ears have heard their desire for the evildoers who rise up against me.
12 The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree; He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house of Jehovah, They will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age; They will be full of sap and green;
15 To declare that Jehovah is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
1 Jehovah reigns; He is clothed with majesty. Jehovah is clothed, He has girded Himself, with strength. Indeed the world has been established; it will not be moved.
2 Your throne is established from of old; You are from eternity.
3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah; The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their roaring.
4 More than the voices of many waters, Than the mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty!
5 Your testimonies are very sure; Holiness befits Your house, O Jehovah, forevermore.
1 O God of vengeance, O Jehovah, O God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Lift Yourself up, O Judge of the earth; Render the reward upon the proud.
3 How long, O Jehovah, will the wicked, How long will the wicked exult?
4 They burst out; they speak arrogantly; All the workers of iniquity boast.
5 They crush Your people, O Jehovah, And afflict Your inheritance.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, And they murder orphans.
7 And they say, Jehovah does not see, And the God of Jacob does not consider.
8 Consider, you senseless ones among the people; And you foolish ones, when will you become wise?
9 He who planted the ear, does He not hear? And He who formed the eye, does He not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, He who teaches man knowledge, does He not reprove?
11 Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man Whom You discipline, O Jehovah, And teach out of Your law;
13 That You may give him rest from the days of evil Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For Jehovah will not abandon His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
15 For judgment will return unto righteousness, And all the upright in heart will follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul would have soon dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot has slipped, Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, upheld me.
19 When my disquieting thoughts within me are many, Your comfortings delight my soul.
20 Shall the seat of destruction be united with You, Which devises trouble through its statutes?
21 They band together against the soul of the righteous man And condemn innocent blood.
22 But Jehovah has been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge;
23 And He will return their iniquity upon them And destroy them in their own evil; Jehovah our God will destroy them.
1 Come, let us sing for joy to Jehovah; Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us make a joyful noise to Him with psalms.
3 For Jehovah is a great God And a great King above all gods.
4 In His hand are the depths of the earth, The heights of the mountains are His also.
5 The sea is His, and He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.
7 For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture And the flock of His hand. Today, if you hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your heart as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
9 When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, even though they had seen My work.
10 For forty years I loathed that generation, And I said, They are a people who go astray in heart; And they do not know My ways;
11 Therefore I swore in My anger:They shall by no means enter into My rest!
1 Sing to Jehovah a new song; Sing to Jehovah, all the earth.
2 Sing to Jehovah, bless His name; Proclaim His salvation from day to day.
3 Declare His glory among the nations, His wondrous deeds among all the peoples.
4 For Jehovah is great and much to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But Jehovah made the heavens.
6 Majesty and splendor are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
7 Ascribe to Jehovah, O families of the peoples, Ascribe to Jehovah, glory and strength;
8 Ascribe to Jehovah the glory of His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
9 Worship Jehovah in holy splendor; Tremble before Him, all the earth.
10 Say among the nations, Jehovah reigns; Indeed the world has been established; it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
11 Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad; Let the sea and its fullness roar.
12 Let the field and all that is in it exult; Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
13 Before Jehovah, for He is coming; For He is coming to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.
1 Jehovah reigns! Let the earth be glad; Let the many islands rejoice.
2 Clouds and deep darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
3 A fire goes before Him And burns up His adversaries all around.
4 His lightning illumines the world; The earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare His righteousness, And all the peoples see His glory.
7 Let all who serve a graven image be ashamed, Who make their boast in idols; Worship Him, all you gods.
8 Zion hears and rejoices, And the daughters of Judah are glad, Because of Your judgments, O Jehovah.
9 For You, O Jehovah, are most high over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
10 O you who love Jehovah, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His faithful ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous man, And rejoicing for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in Jehovah, O righteous ones; And praise His holy memorial.
1 Sing to Jehovah a new song, For He has done wonderful things. His right hand and His holy arm Have accomplished salvation for Him.
2 Jehovah has made His salvation known; In the sight of the nations He has revealed His righteousness.
3 He remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness Toward the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen The salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise to Jehovah, all the earth; Break forth, and sing for joy, and sing psalms.
5 Sing psalms to Jehovah with the lyre, With the lyre and the sound of melody.
6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn Make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.
7 Let the sea and its fullness roar, The world and those who inhabit it.
8 Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the mountains sing for joy together
9 Before Jehovah, for He is coming To judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness And the peoples with equity.
1 Jehovah reigns; let the peoples tremble. He sits between the cherubim; let the earth shake.
2 Jehovah is great in Zion, And He is exalted over all the peoples.
3 Let them praise Your great and awesome name - It is holy -
4 And the strength of the King, who loves justice. You have established equity; You have executed Justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt Jehovah our God, And worship at His footstool; Holy is He.
6 Moses and Aaron among His priests, And Samuel among those who called on His name - They called out to Jehovah, And He answered them.
7 In the pillar of cloud He spoke to them; They kept His testimonies and the statute that He gave them.
8 O Jehovah our God, You answered them; You were a forgiving God to them, Yet One avenging their deeds.
9 Exalt Jehovah our God, And worship on His holy mountain; For holy is Jehovah our God.
1 Make a joyful noise to Jehovah, all the earth.
2 Serve Jehovah with rejoicing; Come before His presence with joyful singing.
3 Know that it is Jehovah who is God; It is He who has made us and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise; Give thanks to Him; bless His name.
5 For Jehovah is good; His lovingkindness is forever, And His faithfulness is to all generations.
1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice; To You, O Jehovah, I will sing psalms.
2 I will give careful heed to the way of the perfect. When will You come to me? I will walk in the perfectness of my heart Within my house.
3 I will not set anything base Before my eyes; I hate what those who turn aside do; It will not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart will depart from me; No evil will I know.
5 He who secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; He who is of a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not tolerate.
6 My eyes are on the faithful of the land, That they may abide with me; He who walks in the way of the perfect, He will minister to me.
7 He who practices deceit Will not dwell within my house; He who speaks lies will not be maintained In my sight.
8 Morning by morning I will destroy All the wicked of the land, In order to cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity.
1 O Jehovah, hear my prayer; And let my cry come unto You.
2 Do not hide Your face from me On the day of my distress; Incline Your ear to me; On the day when I call out, answer me quickly.
3 For my days are consumed in smoke, And my bones burn like a hearth.
4 My heart is stricken like grass and dried up; Indeed I have even forgotten to eat my bread.
5 Because of the voice of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the desolate places.
7 I watch, and I am like A lone sparrow on a housetop.
8 All day long my enemies reproach me; Those who deride me use me as a curse.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And have mixed my drink with weeping,
10 Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have taken me up and cast me away.
11 My days are like a shadow that declines, And I am dried up like grass.
12 But You, O Jehovah, abide forever; And Your memorial is from generation to generation.
13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion, For it is time to be gracious to her; the appointed time has come.
14 For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her soil.
15 And the nations will fear the name of Jehovah, And all the kings of the earth, Your glory;
16 For Jehovah has built up Zion; He has appeared in His glory.
17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, And has not despised their prayer.
18 This will be written for a generation to come, And a people to be created will praise Jehovah.
19 For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; From heaven Jehovah beheld the earth,
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to die;
21 That the name of Jehovah may be declared in Zion, And His praise, in Jerusalem,
22 When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.
23 He has weakened my strength in the way; He has shortened my days.
24 I said, My God, Do not take me away in the middle of my days; Your years are throughout all generations.
25 Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
26 They will perish, but You endure; Indeed all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them, And they will be changed.
27 But You are the same, And Your years are without end.
28 The children of Your servants will continue, And their seed will be established before You.
1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name.
2 Bless Jehovah, O my soul; And do not forget all His benefits:
3 He pardons all your iniquities; He heals all your diseases;
4 He redeems your life from the pit; He crowns you with lovingkindness and compassions;
5 He satisfies the prime of your life with good, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
6 Jehovah executes righteous acts, And judgments for all who are oppressed.
7 He made His ways known to Moses; His acts, to the children of Israel.
8 Jehovah is compassionate and gracious, Long-suffering and abundant in lovingkindness.
9 He will not always contend with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor has He recompensed us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness upon those who fear Him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As compassionate as a father is toward his children, So compassionate is Jehovah toward those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
15 Man - his days are like grass; He flourishes like a field flower:
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is no more; And its own place knows of it no longer.
17 But Jehovah's lovingkindness is from eternity Unto eternity upon those who fear Him, And His righteousness is to the children's children;
18 To those who keep His covenant And remember His precepts so as to do them.
19 Jehovah has established His throne in the heavens, And His kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless Jehovah, you His angels, Who are mighty in strength to perform His word, By obeying the voice of His word.
21 Bless Jehovah, all you His hosts, You His ministers who execute His will.
22 Bless Jehovah, all you His works, In all places of His dominion. Bless Jehovah, O my soul.
1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, You are very great. You are clothed with majesty and splendor,
2 Wrapped with light as with a garment; You stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain.
3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon the wings of the wind.
4 He makes winds His messengers, Flames of fire His ministers.
5 He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it cannot be moved forever and ever.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.
7 At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they rushed away -
8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank - To the place that You established for them.
9 You set a border that they may not pass over, That they may not turn back to cover the earth.
10 He makes the springs gush forth in the valleys; They run among the mountains;
11 They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild asses quench their thirst.
12 The birds of heaven dwell alongside them; They utter their voice among the branches.
13 He waters the mountains from His upper chambers. The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And herbage for man's use, That he may bring forth food from the earth:
15 Even wine that cheers man's heart, Oil that makes his face shine, And bread that sustains man's heart.
16 The trees of Jehovah are full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon, which He planted,
17 Where the birds build their nests; As for the stork, the cypresses are her house.
18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge to the rockbadgers.
19 He made the moon to mark seasons; The sun knows the time of its going down.
20 You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.
21 The young lions roar after their prey, Even to seek their food from God.
22 The sun rises:they retreat And lie down in their dens.
23 Man goes forth to his work And to his labor until evening.
24 How many are Your works, O Jehovah! In wisdom You have made all of them; The earth is full of Your creatures.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and extensively wide; There the creeping things are, even without number, The small animals with the great.
26 There the ships go; Leviathan is there, whom You have formed To play in it.
27 They all wait for You, That You may give them food at the proper time.
28 You give to them; they gather. You open Your hand; they are satisfied with good.
29 You hide Your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they perish, And return to their dust.
30 You send forth Your Spirit; they are created, And You renew the surface of the ground.
31 May the glory of Jehovah endure forever! May Jehovah rejoice in His works,
32 He who looks on the earth, and it trembles; He who touches the mountains, and they smoke!
33 I will sing to Jehovah while I live; I will sing psalms to my God while I yet have being.
34 May my musing be sweet to Him; I will rejoice in Jehovah.
35 May the sinners be consumed from off the earth, And may the wicked be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Hallelujah.
1 Give thanks to Jehovah; call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples.
2 Sing to Him; sing psalms to Him; Muse upon all His wondrous deeds.
3 Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice.
4 Seek Jehovah and His strength; Seek His face continually.
5 Remember His wondrous deeds, which He has done, His signs and the judgments of His mouth,
6 O seed of Abraham His servant, O children of Jacob, His chosen ones.
7 He is Jehovah our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
8 He has remembered His covenant forever, The word that He commanded to a thousand generations,
9 The covenant that He made with Abraham, And His oath unto Isaac.
10 And He confirmed it unto Jacob as a statute, Unto Israel as an eternal covenant,
11 Saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance;
12 When they were men few in number, Indeed very few and strangers in the land.
13 And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
14 He allowed no man to oppress them; Indeed He rebuked kings for their sake.
15 Saying, Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.
16 And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.
17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold as a servant.
18 They afflicted his feet with fetters; He himself was placed in irons.
19 Until the time when his word came to pass, The word of Jehovah tried him.
20 The king sent men and freed him, Even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go.
21 He made him lord of his house And ruler over all his possessions,
22 To imprison his princes at will, And to teach his elders wisdom.
23 Then Israel came into Egypt, And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And He made His people very fruitful, And caused them to be mightier than their adversaries.
25 He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.
26 He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
27 They set His signs among them, And wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.
29 He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.
30 Their land teemed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke, and a swarm of flies came; There were gnats within all their borders.
32 He gave them hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land.
33 He struck their vines and their fig trees, And He broke the trees of their borders.
34 He spoke, and the swarming locusts came, And the licking locusts, even without number.
35 And they ate every herb in their land, And they ate the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck all the firstborn in their land, The first of all their vigor.
37 And He brought them out with silver and gold, And there was none among His tribes who stumbled.
38 Egypt rejoiced at their going forth, For a dread of them had fallen upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering, And a fire to give light by night.
40 They asked, and He brought quails; And He satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; It ran in the dry places like a river.
42 For He remembered His holy word And Abraham His servant.
43 And He brought forth His people with gladness, His chosen ones with a ringing shout.
44 And He gave them the lands of the nations, And they took possession of the labor of the peoples,
45 So that they might keep His statutes And observe His laws. Hallelujah.
1 Hallelujah. Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, Or declare all His praise?
3 Blessed are those who maintain justice, Who execute righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with Your favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,
5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the joy of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers; We committed iniquity; we have acted wickedly.
7 Our fathers in Egypt Did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your acts of lovingkindness, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
8 But He saved them for His name's sake, That He might make His power known.
9 Thus He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths as through the wilderness.
10 And He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 The water then covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.
12 Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.
13 Soon they forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,
14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.
15 And He gave them their request, But He sent leanness into their soul.
16 And they were jealous of Moses in the camp And of Aaron, the holy one of Jehovah.
17 The earth opened, and it swallowed up Dathan And covered the company of Abiram.
18 And a fire burned among their company; A flame engulfed the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,
22 Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham, Awesome things by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, And would have, had not Moses His chosen one Stood in the breach before Him To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word;
25 Rather they murmured in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of Jehovah.
26 Therefore He lifted up His hand and swore to them That He would make them fall in the wilderness,
27 And that He would make their seed fall among the nations, And that He would disperse them among the lands.
28 Then they joined themselves to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
29 Thus they provoked Him to anger by their actions, And the plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stayed;
31 And it has been accounted to him as righteousness From generation to generation unto eternity.
32 Then they angered Him at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
33 For they rebelled against His Spirit, And he spoke rashly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples, As Jehovah had commanded them;
35 But they mingled themselves with the nations And learned their practices.
36 And they served their idols, Which became a snare to them.
37 They also sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons,
38 And poured out innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with bloodshed.
39 Thus they were defiled by their practices, And went about as harlots by their actions.
40 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against His people, And He abhorred His inheritance.
41 And He gave them over into the hand of the nations:And those who hated them ruled over them,
42 And their enemies oppressed them, And they were subdued under their hand.
43 Many times He delivered them, But they were rebellious in their counsel, And they were brought low in their iniquity.
44 Yet He regarded their distress When He heard their cry,
45 And for their sake He remembered His covenant, And repented according to the multitude of His acts of lovingkindness;
46 And He caused them to find compassion With all their captors.
47 Save us, O Jehovah our God; And gather us out of the nations, That we may give thanks to Your holy name, That we may glory in Your praise.
48 Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, From eternity to eternity. And let all the people say, Amen. Hallelujah.
1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, Whom He redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
3 And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness, on the desert way; They found no city of habitation.
5 Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted within them.
6 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, And He delivered them from their distresses.
7 And He led them on a straight way That they might come to a city of habitation.
8 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
9 For He satisfies the thirsty soul, And the famished soul He fills with good.
10 Some inhabited darkness and the shadow of death, And were bound in affliction and irons,
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God And spurned the counsel of the Most High;
12 Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They stumbled, and there was no one to help them.
13 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, And He saved them from their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And He broke apart their bonds.
15 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
16 For He breaks down the doors of bronze And cuts down the bars of iron.
17 Some were fools, because of their way of transgression; And because of their iniquities, they were afflicted.
18 Their soul loathed all food, And they drew near to the gates of death.
19 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses.
20 He sent forth His word and healed them, And He delivered them from the pits of destruction .
21 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
22 And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving And declare His doings in joyful song.
23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, Conducting business on the mighty waters,
24 These see Jehovah's doings And His wondrous deeds in the deep.
25 For He commanded and raised up a storm wind, And it lifted up the waves of the sea.
26 They mounted up to the heavens; they went down to the depths; Their soul melted in the calamity.
27 They reeled and staggered like a drunken man, And were at their wits' end.
28 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, And He brought them out of their distresses.
29 He made the storm be still, And the waves of the sea were calm;
30 And they rejoiced that they were quiet, And He brought them to the haven they desired.
31 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
32 And let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people And praise Him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He turns rivers into a wilderness, And springs of water into thirsty ground;
34 Fruitful land into a salt flat, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into springs of water.
36 And He makes the hungry dwell there, That they may prepare a city of habitation
37 And sow fields and plant vineyards And get a fruitful yield.
38 He also blesses them, and they are multiplied greatly; And He does not let their cattle decrease.
39 When they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
40 He pours contempt on princes, And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
41 But He raises the needy man high above affliction And makes his families like flocks.
42 The upright see it and rejoice; And all iniquity stops its mouth.
43 Who is wise? Then let him observe these things And consider the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
1 My heart is fixed, O God; I will sing, indeed I will sing psalms, Even with my glory.
2 Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
3 I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Jehovah; And I will sing psalms to You among the nations.
4 For Your lovingkindness is higher than the heavens, And Your faithfulness reaches to the sky.
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; And let Your glory be above all the earth.
6 That Your beloved ones may be delivered, Save with Your right hand, and answer us.
7 God has spoken in His holiness:I will exult; I will divide Shechem And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine; And Ephraim is the helmet for My head; Judah is My scepter.
9 Moab is My washbowl; Upon Edom I will cast My sandal; Over Philistia I will shout.
10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Will not You, O God, who rejected us And who did not go forth, O God, with our armies?
12 Give us help from the adversary, For salvation by man is vain.
13 In God we will do valiantly, And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.
1 O God of my praise, do not be silent;
2 For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; They speak to me with a lying tongue.
3 And with words of hatred they have surrounded me And have fought against me without cause.
4 In return for my love they have become my adversaries, But I am all prayer.
5 And they have set against me evil in return for good And hatred in return for my love.
6 Appoint a wicked man over him, And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him come forth wicked; And let his prayer be counted as sin.
8 May his days be few; May another take his office.
9 May his children be orphans, And his wife a widow.
10 And may his children wander all about and beg, And may they seek food far from their desolated ruins.
11 May the creditor seize all that he has, And may strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12 May there be no one to extend him mercy, Nor anyone to be kind to his orphans.
13 May his posterity be cut off; In the generation following may his name be blotted out.
14 May his father's iniquity be remembered before Jehovah, And may his mother's sin not be blotted out.
15 May they be before Jehovah continually, So that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
16 Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, But persecuted the poor and needy and brokenhearted, To put them to death.
17 Indeed he loved cursing, so it came on him; And he took no delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
18 And he clothed himself with cursing like his garment, So it came into his inward parts like water And into his bones like oil.
19 Let it be to him like the cloak that he wraps around himself, And as a belt with which he constantly girds himself.
20 This is the reward from Jehovah for my adversaries And for those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But You, O Jehovah Lord, deal with me, For Your name's sake; Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like a shadow that declines; I am shaken off like the locust.
24 My knees wobble through fasting, And my flesh has become lean, without fatness.
25 I have also become a reproach to them:When they see me, they shake their heads.
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; Save me according to Your lovingkindness;
27 And they will know that this is Your hand, That it is You, O Jehovah, who have done it.
28 Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, they will be put to shame, And Your servant will rejoice.
29 May my adversaries be clothed with humiliation, And may they wrap themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.
30 I will give much thanks to Jehovah with my mouth, And in the midst of the multitude I will praise Him;
31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy To save him from those who judge his soul.
1 Jehovah declares to my Lord, Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies Your footstool.
2 Jehovah will send forth The scepter of Your strength from Zion:Rule in the midst of Your enemies.
3 Your people will offer themselves willingly In the day of Your warfare, In the splendor of their consecration. Your young men will be to You Like the dew from the womb of the dawn.
4 Jehovah has sworn, And He will not change:You are a Priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord is at Your right hand; He will shatter kings in the day of His anger.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations; He will fill the place with corpses; He will shatter the head Over a great land.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way; Therefore He will lift up His head.
1 Hallelujah! I will give thanks to Jehovah with all my heart In the council of the upright and in the assembly.
2 Great are the works of Jehovah, And sought out by all who delight in them.
3 His work is majesty and splendor, And His righteousness endures forever.
4 He has caused His wondrous deeds to be remembered; Jehovah is gracious and compassionate.
5 He gives food to those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever.
6 He has shown His people the power of His works By giving them the heritage of the nations.
7 The works of His hands are truth and justice; All His precepts are sure:
8 They are maintained forever and ever, They are executed in truth and uprightness.
9 He has sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forever; Holy and awesome is His name.
10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; All who practice His precepts have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.
1 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, Who delights greatly in His commandments.
2 His seed will be mighty on the earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness endures forever.
4 Light in the darkness arises to the upright; They are gracious and compassionate and righteous.
5 It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; He will maintain his cause in judgment.
6 For he will never be moved; The righteous man will be remembered forever.
7 He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in Jehovah.
8 His heart is sustained, he is not afraid, Until he sees what should happen to his adversaries.
9 He has scattered abroad; he has given to the needy; His righteousness endures forever; His horn will be exalted with honor.
10 The wicked man will see it and be angry; He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked will perish.
1 Hallelujah! Praise, you servants of Jehovah, Praise the name of Jehovah.
2 Let the name of Jehovah be blessed, From now and to eternity.
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of Jehovah is to be praised.
4 Jehovah is high above all the nations, And His glory is above the heavens.
5 Who is like Jehovah our God, Who has set His throne on high,
6 Who humbles Himself to behold The heavens and the earth?
7 He raises the poor from the dust; From the ash heap He lifts the needy;
8 That He may seat them with princes, With the princes of His people.
9 He causes the barren woman to keep house As a joyful mother of children. Hallelujah.
1 When Israel went forth from Egypt, The house of Jacob from among a people of unintelligible speech,
2 Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion.
3 The sea saw and fled; The Jordan turned back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, The hills, like lambs.
5 What troubles you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble at the presence of the Lord, O earth, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 Who turns the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of water.
1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to Your name give glory, For the sake of Your lovingkindness and Your truth.
2 Why should the nations say, Where then is their God?
3 But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.
4 Their idols are mere silver and gold, The work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; They have eyes, but they do not see.
6 They have ears, but they do not hear; They have noses, but they do not smell.
7 They have hands, but they do not feel; They have feet, but they do not walk; They make no sound in their throat.
8 Those who make them, All who trust in them, Are like them.
9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield.
11 O you who fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield.
12 Jehovah has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron;
13 He will bless those who fear Jehovah, Both small and great.
14 May Jehovah give you increase, Both you and your children.
15 May you be blessed of Jehovah, Maker of heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, But He has given the earth to the children of men.
17 The dead do not praise Jehovah, Nor do any that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless Jehovah From now and to eternity. Hallelujah.
1 I love Jehovah because He hears My voice, my supplications,
2 Because He inclines His ear to me; Therefore I will call upon Him all my days.
3 The bonds of death encompassed me, And the distresses of Sheol fell upon me; I fell upon trouble and sorrow.
4 But I called upon the name of Jehovah. O Jehovah, I pray, deliver my soul.
5 Jehovah is gracious and righteous, Indeed our God is compassionate.
6 Jehovah preserves the simple:I was brought low, and He saved me.
7 Return to your rest, O my soul; For Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you.
8 For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from stumbling.
9 I will walk before Jehovah In the land of the living.
10 I believed, therefore I spoke; I was afflicted greatly.
11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I return to Jehovah For all His benefits toward me?
13 I will take up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of Jehovah.
14 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, Oh, in the presence of all His people.
15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of His faithful ones.
16 Oh, Jehovah! Surely I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant; You have loosed my bonds.
17 To You I will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, And I will call upon the name of Jehovah.
18 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, Oh, in the presence of all His people,
19 In the courts of the house of Jehovah, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah.
1 Praise Jehovah, all you nations; Laud Him, all you peoples.
2 For His lovingkindness is great toward us, And the faithfulness of Jehovah is forever. Hallelujah.
1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Let Israel say, His lovingkindness is forever.
3 Let the house of Aaron say, His lovingkindness is forever.
4 Let those who fear Jehovah say, His lovingkindness is forever.
5 Out of my distress I called upon Jehovah; Jehovah answered me and set me in a place broad and free.
6 Jehovah is for me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
7 Jehovah is for me as my Helper, And I will see what should happen to those who hate me.
8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to trust in man.
9 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to trust in princes.
10 All nations surrounded me; In the name of Jehovah I indeed cut them down!
11 They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me; In the name of Jehovah I indeed cut them down!
12 They surrounded me like bees; They were extinguished like a fire of thorns; In the name of Jehovah I indeed cut them down!
13 I was pushed hard that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me.
14 Jehovah is my strength and my song, And He has become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly;
16 The right hand of Jehovah is exalted; The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly.
17 I will not die, but live, And declare the works of Jehovah.
18 Jehovah has severely chastened me, But He has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness:I will enter in through them; I will give thanks to Jehovah.
20 This is the gate of Jehovah; The righteous shall enter in through it.
21 I will give thanks to You, for You have answered me And have become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the head of the corner.
23 This is from Jehovah; It is wonderful in our sight.
24 This is the day that Jehovah has made; Let us exult and rejoice in it.
25 O Jehovah, do save, we pray! O Jehovah, do send prosperity, we pray!
26 Blessed is He who comes in the name of Jehovah; We bless you from the house of Jehovah.
27 Jehovah is God, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice of the feast with cords To the horns of the altar.
28 You are my God, and I give thanks to You. You are my God; I will exalt You.
29 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is forever.
1 Blessed are those whose way is perfect, Who walk in the law of Jehovah.
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.
3 Surely they do no wrong; They walk in His ways.
4 You have commanded that Your precepts Be diligently kept.
5 Oh that my ways may be established So as to keep Your statutes!
6 Then I will not be put to shame, When I regard all Your commandments.
7 I will give thanks to You with uprightness of heart When I learn Your righteous ordinances.
8 I will keep Your statutes; Do not utterly forsake me.
9 With what should a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
10 With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments.
11 In my heart I have treasured up Your word That I might not sin against You.
12 Blessed are You, O Jehovah; Teach me Your statutes.
13 With my lips I have declared All the ordinances of Your mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies As much as in all riches.
15 I will muse upon Your precepts And regard Your ways.
16 I will take delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
17 Deal bountifully with Your servant that I may live And keep Your word.
18 Open my eyes that I may behold Wondrous things out of Your law.
19 I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
20 My soul is crushed with longing For Your ordinances at all times.
21 You have rebuked the proud, the cursed, Who wander from Your commandments.
22 Roll away from me reproach and contempt, For I have kept Your testimonies.
23 Princes as well have sat and spoken against me, But Your servant mused upon Your statutes.
24 Also Your testimonies are my delight; They are my counselors.
25 My soul clings to the dust; Enliven me according to Your word.
26 I have recounted my ways, and You have answered me; Teach me Your statutes.
27 Cause me to understand the way of Your precepts, And I will muse upon Your wondrous deeds.
28 My soul melts because of grief; Strengthen me according to Your word.
29 Remove from me the way of falsehood, And graciously grant me Your law.
30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Your ordinances I have set before me.
31 I cling to Your testimonies; O Jehovah, do not put me to shame.
32 I run the way of Your commandments, For You enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of Your statutes; And I will keep it to the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I will observe Your law; Indeed I will keep it with all my heart.
35 Cause me to go on the path of Your commandments, For in it I delight.
36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies And not to unjust gain.
37 Turn my eyes from beholding vanity, And enliven me in Your ways.
38 Confirm to Your servant Your word, Which is for fearing You.
39 Turn away my reproach, which I fear; For Your ordinances are good.
40 Behold, I have longed after Your precepts; Enliven me in Your righteousness.
41 May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O Jehovah, Your salvation according to Your word.
42 Thus I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, For I trust in Your word.
43 And do not take the word of truth utterly from my mouth, For I have hoped in Your ordinances.
44 Thus I will keep Your law continually, Forever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty, For I have sought Your precepts.
46 I will also speak of Your testimonies before kings And not be ashamed.
47 And I will take delight in Your commandments, Which I love.
48 And I will lift up my hand to Your commandments, which I love; And I will muse upon Your statutes.
49 Remember the word to Your servant In which You have made me hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has enlivened me.
51 The proud have derided me greatly; I have not swerved from Your law.
52 I have remembered Your ordinances from long ago, O Jehovah, and have comforted myself.
53 Raging indignation seizes me because of the wicked, Who forsake Your law.
54 Your statutes have become my songs of praise In the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered Your name In the night, O Jehovah, And have kept Your law.
56 This has been mine, That I have kept Your precepts.
57 Jehovah is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.
58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; Be gracious to me according to Your word.
59 I considered my ways And turned my feet toward Your testimonies.
60 I hurried and did not delay To keep Your commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked surround me, But I have not forgotten Your law.
62 At midnight I rise up to give thanks to You Because of Your righteous ordinances.
63 I am a companion to all who fear You And to those who keep Your precepts.
64 Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, fills the earth; Teach me Your statutes.
65 You have dealt well with Your servant, O Jehovah, according to Your word.
66 Teach me proper discernment and knowledge, For I believe in Your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I keep Your word.
68 You are good and One who does good; Teach me Your statutes.
69 The proud have plastered lies against me; With my whole heart I will keep Your precepts.
70 Their heart is heavy as with fat; But I delight in Your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Your statutes.
72 The law of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding that I may learn Your commandments.
74 Those who fear You will see me and rejoice, For I have hoped in Your word.
75 I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are righteous And that in faithfulness You afflicted me.
76 Let Your lovingkindness, I beseech You, be my comfort, According to Your word to Your servant.
77 Let Your compassions come to me, and I will live; For Your law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be put to shame, for they have subverted my cause with a lie; But I will muse upon Your precepts.
79 Let those who fear You turn to me, And they will know Your testimonies.
80 May my heart be perfect in Your statutes, That I may not be put to shame.
81 My soul faints while longing for Your salvation; I hope in Your word.
82 My eyes faint while longing for Your word, As I say, When will You comfort me?
83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke; But I do not forget Your statutes.
84 How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute justice upon my persecutors?
85 The proud have dug pits for me, Those who are not according to Your law.
86 All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me falsely; help me.
87 They have almost consumed me upon the earth; But I have not forsaken Your precepts.
88 Enliven me according to Your lovingkindness, And I will keep the testimony of Your mouth.
89 Forever, O Jehovah, Does Your word stand firm in heaven.
90 Your faithfulness is from generation to generation; You established the earth, and it abides.
91 They abide to this day according to Your ordinances, For all things are Your servants.
92 Unless Your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
93 I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have enlivened me.
94 I am Yours; save me, For I have sought Your precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me in order to destroy me, But I consider Your testimonies.
96 I have seen an end to all perfection, But Your commandment is all-expansive.
97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my musing.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are always with me.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my musing.
100 I understand more than the aged, For I have kept Your precepts.
101 I have withheld my feet from every evil way, That I might keep Your word.
102 I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, For You have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I gain understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
106 I have sworn and will confirm it, That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.
107 I have been greatly afflicted; O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your word.
108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah; And teach me Your ordinances.
109 My soul is continually in my hand, But I do not forget Your law.
110 The wicked have laid a trap for me, But I do not stray from Your precepts.
111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, For they are the gladness of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes Forever, to the end.
113 I hate those who are double-minded, But I love Your law.
114 You are my hiding place and my shield; In Your word do I hope.
115 Depart from me, you evildoers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according to Your word that I may live, And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold me up that I may be safe, And I will regard Your statutes continually.
118 You spurn all those who stray from Your statutes, For their deceitfulness is vain.
119 You do away with all the wicked ones of the earth like dross; Therefore I love Your testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of You, And I am afraid of Your judgments.
121 I have performed justice and righteousness; Do not leave me to my oppressors.
122 Guarantee Your servant's well-being; Do not let the proud oppress me.
123 My eyes faint while longing for Your salvation And for Your righteous word.
124 Deal with Your servant according to Your lovingkindness, And teach me Your statutes.
125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, That I may know Your testimonies.
126 It is time for Jehovah to act, For they have broken Your law.
127 Therefore I love Your commandments More than gold, indeed, more than fine gold;
128 Therefore I esteem all Your precepts concerning all things to be right, And I hate every false way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The opening of Your words gives light, Imparting understanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.
132 Turn to me, and be gracious to me, As is Your custom with those who love Your name.
133 Establish my footsteps in Your word, And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from man's oppression, That I may keep Your precepts.
135 Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, And teach me Your statutes.
136 My eyes shed streams of water, Because men do not keep Your law.
137 You are righteous, O Jehovah; And Your judgments are upright.
138 You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness And great faithfulness.
139 My zeal has consumed me, For my adversaries have forgotten Your words.
140 Your word is very pure, And Your servant loves it.
141 I am small and despised, But I do not forget Your precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an eternal righteousness, And Your law is truth.
143 Distress and anguish have come upon me, But Your commandments are my delight.
144 Your testimonies are righteous forever; Give me understanding, and I will live.
145 I called with my whole heart; answer me, O Jehovah. I will keep Your statutes.
146 I called upon You; save me, And I will observe Your testimonies.
147 I anticipated the dawn and cried out; I hoped in Your words.
148 My eyes anticipated the night watches, That I might muse upon Your word.
149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; O Jehovah, according to Your ordinances enliven me.
150 Those who persecute me with evil intent draw near; They are far from Your law.
151 You are near, O Jehovah; And all Your commandments are truth.
152 Of old I have known from Your testimonies That You have founded them forever.
153 Look at my affliction, and deliver me; For I have not forgotten Your law.
154 Plead my case, and redeem me; Enliven me according to Your word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked, For they do not seek Your statutes.
156 Great are Your compassions, O Jehovah; Enliven me according to Your ordinances.
157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, But I have not swerved from Your testimonies.
158 I saw the treacherous and loathed them, Because they did not keep Your word.
159 See how I have loved Your precepts; O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your lovingkindness.
160 The sum of Your word is truth, And all Your righteous ordinances are forever.
161 Princes have persecuted me without cause, But my heart stands in awe of Your words.
162 I rejoice at Your word, Like one who finds great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor falsehood, But I love Your law.
164 Seven times a day I praise You For Your righteous ordinances.
165 There is great peace for those who love Your law, And there is no occasion of stumbling for them.
166 I have hoped for Your salvation, O Jehovah; And I have done Your commandments.
167 My soul has kept Your testimonies, And I love them very much.
168 I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are before You.
169 Let my cry come before You, O Jehovah; Give me understanding according to Your word.
170 Let my supplication come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.
171 Let my lips pour forth praise, For You teach me Your statutes.
172 Let my tongue sing of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.
173 Let Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts.
174 I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah, And Your law is my delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it will praise You; And let Your ordinances help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, For I have not forgotten Your commandments.
1 In my distress I called out to Jehovah, And He answered me.
2 O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lying lips, From a tongue of deceit.
3 What should be given to you, And what further shall be done to you, O tongue of deceit?
4 The sharp arrows of a mighty man, With the burning coals of the broom tree!
5 Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech, I dwell among the tents of Kedar.
6 Long has my soul had its dwelling With him who hates peace.
7 I am for peace; but when I speak, They are for war.
1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills. From where will my help come?
2 My help comes from Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip; He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, Israel's Keeper Will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 Jehovah is your Keeper; Jehovah is your shade at your right hand.
6 The sun will not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night.
7 Jehovah will keep you from all evil; He will keep your soul.
8 Jehovah will keep your going out and your coming in From now and to eternity.
1 I rejoiced when they said to me, Let us go to the house of Jehovah.
2 Our feet are standing Within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem has been built as a city That has been compacted together;
4 To which the tribes go up, The tribes of Jehovah - A custom for Israel - To give thanks to the name of Jehovah.
5 For there thrones are set for judgment, Thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
7 Peace be within your bulwarks, And prosperity within your citadels.
8 For my brothers' and companions' sake I will now say, Peace be within you.
9 For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek your good.
1 To You do I lift up my eyes, You who sit enthroned in heaven.
2 Behold, as the eyes of the servants Look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a servant girl Look to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to Jehovah our God, Until He is gracious to us.
3 Be gracious to us, O Jehovah, be gracious to us; For we are greatly filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is greatly filled With the scorn of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.
1 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, Oh, let Israel say,
2 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side When men rose up against us;
3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive When their anger burned against us;
4 Then the waters would have washed us away; The stream would have passed over our soul;
5 Then the proud waters Would have passed over our soul.
6 Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us As prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul has escaped like a bird, Out of the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, And we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
1 Those who trust in Jehovah are like Mount Zion, Which cannot be moved but abides forever.
2 Jerusalem - mountains surround her; And Jehovah surrounds His people From now and to eternity.
3 For the scepter of wickedness will not rest Upon the allotment of the righteous, That the righteous would not put forth Their hands to iniquity.
4 Do good, O Jehovah, to the good And to those upright in their hearts.
5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them off with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
1 When Jehovah turned again the captivity of Zion, We were like those who dream.
2 At that time our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with a ringing shout. At that time they said among the nations, Jehovah has done great things for them.
3 Jehovah has done great things for us; We are joyful.
4 Turn again, O Jehovah, our captivity Like the streams in the south.
5 Those who sow in tears Will reap with a ringing shout.
6 He who goes forth and weeps, Bearing seed for scattering, Will no doubt come in with a ringing shout, Bearing his sheaves with him.
1 Unless Jehovah builds the house, Those who build it labor in vain. Unless Jehovah keeps the city, The guard watches in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To lie down late, To eat the bread of toil; All the same, He gives to His beloved while they sleep.
3 Behold, children are the heritage of Jehovah, The fruit of the womb a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of one's youth.
5 Blessed is the man Who fills his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame When he speaks with enemies in the gate.
1 Blessed is everyone who fears Jehovah, Who walks in His ways.
2 You will indeed eat the labor of your hands; You will be blessed, and it will go well with you.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine In the innermost parts of your house. Your children will be like olive shoots Round about your table.
4 Thus will the man be blessed Who fears Jehovah.
5 Jehovah bless you from Zion; And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem All the days of your life.
6 May you also see the children of your children. Peace be upon Israel.
1 Many times have they afflicted me since my youth, Oh, let Israel say,
2 Many times have they afflicted me since my youth, Yet they did not prevail against me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long.
4 Jehovah is righteous; He has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.
6 May they be like grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,
7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Or he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
8 Nor may those who pass by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you! We bless you in the name of Jehovah.
1 Out of the depths I have called upon You, O Jehovah.
2 O Lord, hear my voice; Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.
3 If You, O Jehovah, marked iniquities, Who, O Lord, would stand?
4 But with You there is forgiveness, That You would be feared.
5 I wait for Jehovah; my soul waits, And in His word I hope.
6 My soul waits for the Lord More than watchmen for the morning, Yes, watchmen for the morning.
7 Hope in Jehovah, O Israel; For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness, And with Him abundantly there is redemption;
8 And it is He who will redeem Israel From all its iniquities.
1 O Jehovah, my heart is not proud, Nor are my eyes haughty; Nor do I go about in things too great Or too wondrous for me.
2 Surely I have calmed And quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with its mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 Hope in Jehovah, O Israel, From now and to eternity.
1 Remember, O Jehovah, for David's sake All his afflictions;
2 How he swore to Jehovah And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
3 I shall not go into the tent of my house; I shall not go up onto the couch of my bed;
4 I shall not give sleep to my eyes, Slumber to my eyelids;
5 Until I find a place for Jehovah, A tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.
6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; We found it in the fields of Jaar.
7 We will go into His tabernacle; We will worship at His footstool.
8 Arise, O Jehovah, unto Your resting place, You and the Ark of Your strength.
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your faithful ones give a ringing shout.
10 For the sake of David Your servant, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed One.
11 Jehovah has sworn unto David in truth; He will not turn from it:Of the fruit of your body I will set One upon your throne.
12 If your children keep My covenant And My testimonies that I will teach them, Their children also will sit Upon your throne forever.
13 For Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation.
14 This is My resting place forever; Here will I dwell, for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless its provision; I will satisfy its poor with bread.
16 And its priests I will clothe with salvation, And its faithful ones will shout with a ringing shout.
17 There I will cause a horn of David to shoot forth; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
18 I will clothe his enemies with shame, But on him his crown will shine.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell in unity!
2 It is like the fine oil upon the head That ran down upon the beard, Upon Aaron's beard, That ran down upon the hem of his garments;
3 Like the dew of Hermon That came down upon the mountains of Zion. For there Jehovah commanded the blessing:Life forever.
1 Bless Jehovah now, All you servants of Jehovah Who stand by night in the house of Jehovah.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless Jehovah.
3 May Jehovah, who made heaven and earth, Bless you from Zion.
1 Hallelujah! Praise the name of Jehovah; Praise Him, you servants of Jehovah,
2 Who stand in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of the house of our God.
3 Praise Jehovah, for Jehovah is good; Sing psalms to His name, for it is pleasant.
4 For Jehovah has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His personal treasure.
5 For I know that Jehovah is great And that our Lord is above all gods.
6 Whatever Jehovah pleases He does In heaven and on earth, In the seas and all the depths.
7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings forth wind from His treasuries.
8 He struck the firstborn of Egypt, Both of man and of beast.
9 He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, Upon Pharaoh and all his servants.
10 He struck many nations And slew mighty kings:
11 Sihon the king of the Amorites And Og the king of Bashan And all the kingdoms of Canaan.
12 And He gave their land as an inheritance, An inheritance to Israel His people.
13 O Jehovah, Your name is forever; O Jehovah, Your memorial is from generation to generation.
14 For Jehovah will execute judgment for His people, And He will have compassion concerning His servants.
15 The idols of the nations are mere silver and gold, The work of human hands.
16 They have mouths, but they do not speak; They have eyes, but they do not see.
17 They have ears, but they do not give ear; And there is no breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them, All who trust in them, Will be like them.
19 O house of Israel, bless Jehovah. O house of Aaron, bless Jehovah.
20 O house of Levi, bless Jehovah. O you who fear Jehovah, bless Jehovah.
21 Blessed be Jehovah from Zion, Who dwells in Jerusalem. Hallelujah.
1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods, For His lovingkindness is forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, For His lovingkindness is forever;
4 To Him who alone does great wonders, For His lovingkindness is forever;
5 To Him who by understanding made the heavens, For His lovingkindness is forever;
6 To Him who spread forth the earth over the waters, For His lovingkindness is forever;
7 To Him who made the great lights, For His lovingkindness is forever;
8 The sun for ruling the day, For His lovingkindness is forever;
9 The moon and the stars for ruling the night, For His lovingkindness is forever;
10 To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn, For His lovingkindness is forever;
11 And brought forth Israel from their midst, For His lovingkindness is forever;
12 With a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, For His lovingkindness is forever;
13 To Him who divided the Red Sea apart, For His lovingkindness is forever;
14 And brought Israel over through the midst of it, For His lovingkindness is forever;
15 And shook off Pharaoh and his force into the Red Sea, For His lovingkindness is forever;
16 To Him who marched His people through the wilderness, For His lovingkindness is forever;
17 To Him who struck great kings, For His lovingkindness is forever;
18 And slew majestic kings, For His lovingkindness is forever;
19 Sihon the king of the Amorites, For His lovingkindness is forever;
20 And Og the king of Bashan, For His lovingkindness is forever;
21 And gave their land as an inheritance, For His lovingkindness is forever;
22 An inheritance to Israel His servant, For His lovingkindness is forever;
23 Who remembered us in our low estate, For His lovingkindness is forever;
24 And rescued us from our adversaries, For His lovingkindness is forever;
25 Who gives food to all flesh, For His lovingkindness is forever.
26 Give thanks to the God of heaven, For His lovingkindness is forever.
1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down; indeed, we wept When we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows in the midst of it We hung up our lyres,
3 For there our captors required of us songs, And those who tormented us required of us mirth, saying, Sing for us One of the songs of Zion.
4 How can we sing the song of Jehovah In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill.
6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, If I do not remember you, If I do not prefer Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Jehovah, Against the children of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Who said, Lay it bare! Lay it bare, Down to its foundation!
8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be devastated, Happy will he be who repays you The recompense of what you have rendered to us.
9 Happy will he be who seizes your little ones And dashes them against the rock.
1 I will give You thanks with all my heart; Before the gods I will sing psalms to You.
2 I will bow toward Your holy temple And give thanks to Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth, For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.
3 On the day that I called out, You answered me; You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, O Jehovah; For they have heard the words of Your mouth.
5 And they will sing of the ways of Jehovah, For great is the glory of Jehovah.
6 For though Jehovah is high, He regards the lowly; And the haughty He knows from afar.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will preserve me; Against the wrath of my enemies You will stretch out Your hand, And Your right hand will save me.
8 Jehovah will complete that which concerns me. O Jehovah, Your lovingkindness is forever; Do not forsake the works of Your own hands.
1 O Jehovah, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 You thoroughly search my path and my lying down, And You are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For a word is not yet on my tongue, And already You, O Jehovah, know it completely.
5 You have closed in on me behind and before And have laid Your hand on me.
6 O knowledge too wonderful for me! It is so high; I cannot attain to it.
7 Where shall I go, away from Your Spirit, And where shall I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, there You are.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn And settle at the limits of the sea,
10 There also Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will take hold of me.
11 And if I say, Surely darkness will cover me, And the light around me will be night;
12 Even the darkness is not dark to You, And night shines like day; The darkness is like the light.
13 For it was You who formed my inward parts; You wove me together in my mother's womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, And my soul knows it well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You When I was made in secret, Skillfully fashioned in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; And in Your book all of them were written:The days that were ordained for me, When not one of them was yet.
17 And how precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would be more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
19 Oh that You, O God, would slay the wicked - Depart from me therefore, you men of bloodshed -
20 Those who speak of You with evil intent, Who as Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O Jehovah? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with a perfect hatred; They have become my own enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there is some harmful way in me, And lead me on the eternal way.
1 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from evil men; From violent men preserve me;
2 Who devise evil schemes in their hearts And continually stir up wars.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like that of a serpent; The poison of adders is under their lips.
4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; From violent men preserve me; Who devise schemes to thrust me down.
5 The proud have hidden a trap for me and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me.
6 I said to Jehovah, You are my God; Give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.
7 O Jehovah Lord, strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked man; Do not let his evil scheme advance, Lest he be exalted.
9 As for the head of those who surround me, May the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10 May burning coals drop down upon them; May they be thrown down into the fire, Into deep pits, never to rise again.
11 Let no slanderer be established in the land; Let evil hunt down the violent man speedily.
12 I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted And justice for the needy.
13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name; The upright will dwell in Your presence.
1 O Jehovah, I have called upon You; hasten to me. Give ear to my voice when I call out to You.
2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
4 Do not let my heart turn to anything evil, To practice deeds of wickedness With men who commit iniquity; And let me not eat of their delicacies.
5 Let the righteous strike me in kindness and reprove me; Let not my head refuse oil upon the head, For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.
6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock, And they hear my words, that they are pleasant.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 For my eyes are upon You, O Jehovah Lord; In You I take refuge; do not pour out my soul.
9 Keep me from the trap they have set for me And from the snares of the workers of iniquity.
10 May the wicked fall into their own nets While I alone pass by.
1 With my voice I cry to Jehovah; With my voice I make my supplication to Jehovah.
2 I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.
3 When my spirit fainted within me, You knew my path. On the way on which I walked They have hidden a trap for me.
4 Look on my right hand and see, For there is no one who regards me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for me.
5 I cried to You, O Jehovah; I said, You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
6 Give heed to my cry, For I have been brought very low; Deliver me from those who persecute me, For they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks to Your name. The righteous will surround me, For You will deal bountifully with me.
1 O Jehovah, hear my prayer; Give ear to my supplications; Answer me in Your faithfulness and in Your righteousness;
2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life down to the ground; He has caused me to dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit faints within me; My heart is appalled in the midst of me.
5 I remember the days of old; I meditate upon all that You have done; I muse upon the work of Your hands.
6 I spread out my hands to You; My soul thirsts for You like a parched land.
7 Hurry and answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I become like those who go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You I trust. Make known to me the way on which I should walk, For to You I lift up my soul.
9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Jehovah; I have fled to You for a refuge.
10 Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Let Your good Spirit lead me In a plain country.
11 For Your name's sake, O Jehovah, preserve me alive; In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
12 And in Your lovingkindness cut off my enemies And destroy all those who oppress my soul, For I am Your servant.
1 Blessed be Jehovah my rock, Who teaches my hands for war And my fingers for battle:
2 My Lord of lovingkindness and my fortress, My high retreat and my Deliverer, My shield and He in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
3 O Jehovah, what is man, that You take knowledge of him, And the son of man, that You think of him?
4 Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
5 O Jehovah, bow Your heavens down and descend; Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
6 Flash forth lightning, and scatter them; Send forth Your arrows, and discomfit them.
7 Stretch forth Your hand from on high; Rescue me and deliver me From the great waters, From the hand of foreigners;
8 Whose mouth speaks deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 O God, I will sing a new song to You; Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to You,
10 Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David His servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12 May our sons be like plants Grown up in their youth; May our daughters be like corner pillars Hewn out in fashion for a palace;
13 May our barns be full, Furnishing produce of all kinds; May our sheep bring forth thousands And ten thousands in our fields;
14 May our oxen be fully laden; May there be no breaking in to rob or going forth to fight, Or outcry in our streets.
15 Blessed are the people who are so; Blessed are the people whose God is Jehovah.
1 I will extol You, O my God and King; And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2 Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3 Great is Jehovah, and much to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation will laud Your works to another, And they will declare Your mighty acts.
5 Upon the glorious splendor of Your majesty And upon Your wondrous works I will muse.
6 And men will speak of the might of Your awesome deeds, And I will declare Your greatness.
7 They will utter the memory of Your great goodness And will sing for joy of Your righteousness.
8 Jehovah is gracious and compassionate, Long-suffering and great in lovingkindness.
9 Jehovah is good to all, And His compassions are upon all His works.
10 All Your works will praise You, O Jehovah; And Your faithful ones will bless You.
11 They will speak of the glory of Your kingdom And tell of Your power,
12 To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts And the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, And Your dominion is throughout all generations.
14 Jehovah upholds all who are falling And raises up all who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of everyone wait for You, And You give them their food in due season.
16 You open up Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 Jehovah is righteous in all His ways, And faithfully kind in all His doings.
18 Jehovah is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him, And He will hear their cry and save them.
20 Jehovah preserves all who love Him, But He will destroy all the wicked.
21 My mouth will speak the praise of Jehovah, And all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever.
1 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul!
2 I will praise Jehovah while I live; I will sing psalms to my God while I yet have being.
3 Do not trust in princes, In a son of man, with whom there is no salvation.
4 His breath goes forth; he returns to his earth; On that day his plans perish.
5 Blessed is the man whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth And the sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever;
7 Who executes judgment for the oppressed; Who gives food to the famished. Jehovah frees the prisoners;
8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down; Jehovah loves the righteous;
9 Jehovah preserves the sojourners; He upholds the orphan and the widow; But He subverts the way of the wicked.
10 Jehovah will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, forever and ever. Hallelujah!
1 Hallelujah! For it is good to sing psalms to our God; For it is pleasant; praise is fitting.
2 Jehovah builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.
6 Jehovah uplifts the lowly; He brings the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving; Sing psalms to our God with the lyre;
8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who causes grass to grow on the mountains,
9 Who gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens who cry.
10 He takes no delight in the strength of horses; Nor pleasure in the legs of man.
11 Jehovah takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who hope in His lovingkindness.
12 Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; Praise your God, O Zion;
13 For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children within you.
14 He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest wheat.
15 He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow like wool; He scatters frost like ashes;
17 He casts His hail like crumbs - Who can stand before His cold?
18 He sends forth His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow; the waters flow.
19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
20 He has not dealt so with any other nation; And as for His ordinances, they have not known them. Hallelujah!
1 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights.
2 Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts.
3 Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light.
4 Praise Him, you heaven of heavens, And you waters that are above the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For He commanded, and they were created.
6 And He established them forever and ever; He gave the decree which shall not pass away.
7 Praise Jehovah from the earth, You sea monsters and all the depths;
8 Fire and hail, snow and smoke; Stormy wind that executes His word;
9 Mountains and all hills; Fruit trees and all cedars;
10 Animals wild and tame; Creeping things and birds of flight;
11 Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth;
12 Choice young men as well as virgins; Old men with young men.
13 Let them praise the name of Jehovah, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
14 And He has raised up a horn for His people, The praise of all His faithful ones, The children of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!
1 Hallelujah! Sing a new song to Jehovah; Sing His praise in the congregation of His faithful ones.
2 Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; Let the children of Zion exult in their King.
3 Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing psalms to Him with the tambourine and the lyre.
4 For Jehovah takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the lowly with salvation.
5 Let the faithful ones exult in glory; Let them give a ringing shout upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats, And a two-edged sword in their hand,
7 To execute vengeance on the nations And punishment among the peoples;
8 To bind their kings with fetters And their nobles with chains of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written. This honor is for all His faithful ones. Hallelujah!
1 Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in the firmament of His power.
2 Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His vast greatness.
3 Praise Him with the blast of the trumpet; Praise Him with the harp and lyre;
4 Praise Him with the tambourine and with dancing; Praise Him with the stringed instrument and the pipe.
5 Praise Him with the loud cymbals; Praise Him with the loud clanging cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise Jehovah. Hallelujah!