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1 A Psalm by David. O Yah Veh, I call to you; hasten to me; hearken to my voice when I call to you:
2 I prepare my prayer at your face as incense; and the burden of my palms as the evening offering.
3 Set a guard, O Yah Veh, in front of my mouth; guard the door of my lips;
4 spread not my heart to any evil word - to exploit wicked exploits with men who work mischief - that I not eat of their delicacies.
5 The just hammer me in mercy, and reprove me; an ointment of the head - which my head disallows not; for my prayer is yet against their evil.
6 Their judges are released by the hands of the rocks; they hear my sayings; they are pleased.
7 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of sheol as one cleaving and splitting the earth.
8 But to you, O Yah Veh Adonay, are my eyes; in you I seek refuge; strip not my soul naked:
9 guard me from the hands of the snares they ensnare for me - and the snares of the doers of mischief.
10 Fell the wicked into their own nets, until I pass over.
142 1 On Comprehension: By David: A Prayer when he is in the cave. My voice to Yah Veh, I cry; my voice to Yah Veh, I seek charism:
2 I pour my meditation at his face; I tell my tribulation to his face:
3 when my spirit languishes within me, then you know my path: in the way I walk, they hide a snare for me.
4 I look to the right and see; no one recognizes me: retreat destructs from me; no one seeks of my soul.
5 I cry to you, O Yah Veh; I say, You are my refuge and my allotment in the land of the living;
6 hearken to my shouting for I am mightily languished: rescue me from my pursuers for they are stronger than I:
7 bring my soul from the lockup to spread hands to your name; the just surround me; when you deal with me.
143 1 A Psalm: By David. Hear my prayer, O Yah Veh; hearken to my supplications: in your trustworthiness answer me - in your justness.
2 And enter not into judgment with your servant; for at your face no one living is justified;
3 for an enemy pursues my soul; he crushes my life to the earth; he settles me in darkness as the eternal dead:
4 my spirit within me languishes; my heart within me desolates:
5 I remember the days of antiquity; I meditate on all your deeds; I meditate on the work of your hands:
6 I spread my hands to you; my soul is as a languid land for you. Selah.
7 Answer me hastily, O Yah Veh; my spirit finishes off: hide not your face from me; lest I be as they who descend in the well:
8 that I hear your mercy in the morning; for in you I confide: that I know the way wherein I walk; for I lift up my soul to you.
9 Rescue me, O Yah Veh, from my enemies - cover me with yourself;
10 teach me to work your pleasure for you are my Elohim; your spirit is good; lead me into the land of straightness.
11 Enliven me, O Yah Veh, for sake of your name; for sake of your justness bring my soul from tribulation:
12 and by your mercy cut off my enemies and exterminate all who tribulate my soul; for I am your servant.
144 1 By David. Blessed - Yah Veh my rock who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to war:
2 my mercy and my stronghold; my secure loft, who slips me away; my buckler, in whom I seek refuge; who subdues my people under me.
3 O Yah Veh, what is humanity, that you know him? - the son of man, that you fabricate him?
4 Humanity is likened to vanity; his days are as a passing shadow.
5 Spread your heavens, O Yah Veh, and descend; touch the mountains, and they smoke;
6 lightning the lightning and scatter them; send your arrows and agitate them;
7 send your hand from the heights; tear me loose and rescue me from great waters - from the hand of strange sons
8 whose mouth words vanity whose right is a right of falsehood.
9 O Elohim, I sing you a new song; on a bagpipe and a decachord, I psalm to you
10 - who gives salvation to sovereigns; who release David his servant from the evil sword.
11 Tear me loose and rescue me from the hand of strange sons - whose mouth words vanity whose right is a right of falsehood.
12 Because our sons as plants become grown in their youth; and our daughters as prominent corner pillars carved in the pattern of a manse;
13 our granaries fill up - producing species by species; our flocks bring forth a thousandfold and abound by the myriads in our outways;
14 our chiliarchs bear - neither breaching nor going out; nor cry out in our broadways.
15 Blithe - that people, who is thus; yes, blithe - that people, whose Elohim is Yah Veh.
145 1 Halal: By David. I exalt you, my Elohim, O sovereign; and I bless your name eternally and eternally:
2 every day I bless you; and I halal your name eternally and eternally:
3 great is Yah Veh and mightily to be halaled; and his greatness is not to be probed:
4 generation to generation lauds your works and tells your might:
5 I meditate on the glorious honor of your majesty and on your marvellous words:
6 and say of the strength of your awesome acts; I scribe your greatness:
7 they gush the memorial of your great goodness and shout of your justness.
8 Yah Veh is charismatic and merciful; slow to wrath and of great mercy:
9 Yah Veh is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.
10 All your works spread hands to you, O Yah Veh; and your mercied bless you:
11 they say of the honor of your sovereigndom and word of your might;
12 to make his might known to the sons of humanity - and the honor of majesty of his kingdom.
13 Your sovereigndom is an eternal sovereigndom and your reign generation to generation.
14 Yah Veh upholds all who fall and raises all who are bowed down:
15 the eyes of all expect you; and you give them their food on time:
16 you open your hand and satisfy the pleasure of all living.
17 Yah Veh is just in all his ways and mercied in all his works:
18 Yah Veh is near all who call on him - to all who call on him in truth:
19 he works their pleasure, who awe him; he hears their cry and saves them:
20 Yah Veh guards all who love him; and desolates all the wicked.
21 My mouth words the halal of Yah Veh; all flesh blesses his holy name eternally and eternally.
146 1 Halalu Yah! Halal Yah Veh, O my soul.
2 I halal Yah Veh in my life time; I psalm to my Elohim while I still am.
3 Confide not in volunteers - in a son of humanity - in whom there is no salvation:
4 his spirit goes; he returns to his soil; that very day his thoughts destruct.
5 Blithe - he who has El of Yaaqov for his help; whose expectation is in Yah Veh his Elohim
6 - who worked the heavens and earth, the sea and all therein: who guards truth eternally;
7 who works judgment for the oppressed; who gives bread to the famished. Yah Veh looses the bound;
8 Yah Veh opens the blind; Yah Veh raises the bowed; Yah Veh loves the just;
9 Yah Veh guards the sojourners; he restores the orphan and widow; and twists the way of the wicked.
10 Yah Veh reigns eternal; your Elohim, O Siyon, generation to generation. Halalu Yah!
147 1 Halalu Yah! For it is good to psalm to our Elohim; for it is pleasant; and befits halal:
2 Yah Veh builds Yeru Shalem; he gathers the overthrown of Yisra El;
3 he heals the broken in heart and binds their contortions;
4 he numbers the number of the stars; he calls them all by names.
5 Great is our Adonay and great of force; his discernments innumerable:
6 Yah Veh restores the humble; he abases the wicked to the earth.
7 Answer Yah Veh with spread hands; psalm on the harp to our Elohim
8 - who covers the heavens with thick clouds; who prepares rain for the earth; who sprouts grass on the mountains;
9 who gives his bread to the animal and to the sons of ravens who call.
10 He neither delights in the might of the horse; nor takes pleasure in the legs of a man.
11 Yah Veh takes pleasure in them who awe him; who await his mercy.
12 Laud Yah Veh, O Yeru Shalem; halal your Elohim, O Siyon.
13 For he strengthens the bars of your portals; he blesses your sons within you;
14 who sets shalom in your borders and satisfies you with the fat of the wheat;
15 who sends his sayings on earth; whose word runs very quickly;
16 who gives snow as wool: he scatters the hoarfrost as ashes;
17 he casts his ice as morsels. Who stands at the face of his cold?
18 He sends his word and they melt; he blows his wind; the waters flow;
19 he tells his word to Yaaqov - his words and his judgments to Yisra El.
20 He worked not thus with any goyim; and as to judgments, they know them not. Halalu Yah!
148 1 Halalu Yah! Halal Yah Veh from the heavens; halal him in the heights;
2 halal him, all his angels; halal him, all his hosts;
3 halal him, sun and moon; halal him, all you stars of light;
4 halal him, you heavens of the heavens and you waters above the heavens:
5 Halal the name of Yah Veh; for he misvahed and they were created.
6 He stands them eternally and eternally; he gave a statute; they pass not over.
7 Halal Yah Veh from the earth you monsters and all abysses;
8 fire and hail; snow and smoke; stormy wind working his word;
9 mountains and all hills; fruitful trees and all cedars;
10 live beings and all animals; creepers and birds of wing;
11 sovereigns of the earth and all nations; governors and all judges of the earth;
12 both youths and maidens; aged and lads!
13 Halal the name of Yah Veh; for his name alone is lofted; his majesty is above the earth and the heavens:
14 he exalts the horn of his people - the halal of all his mercied; of the sons of Yisra El - a people near him. Halalu Yah!
149 1 Halalu Yah! Sing Yah Veh a new song and his halal in the congregation of the mercied.
2 Yisra El cheers in his Worker; the sons of Siyon twirl in their Sovereign:
3 they halal his name in the round dance; they psalm to him with tambourine and harp;
4 for Yah Veh takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
5 The mercied jump for joy in honor; they shout on their beds;
6 the exaltation of El is in their throat and a sword of teeth in their hand
7 - to work vengeance on the goyim and reproofs on the nations:
8 to bind their sovereigns with bonds and their honored with fetters of iron:
9 to work on them the inscribed judgment - a majesty for all his mercied. Halalu Yah!
150 1 Halalu Yah! Halal El in his holies; halal him in the expanse of his strength;
2 halal him for his might; halal him according to his abundant greatness;
3 halal him with the blast of the shophar; halal him with the bagpipe and harp;
4 halal him with the tambourine and round dance; halal him with strummers and woodwinds;
5 halal him on the hearkening cymbals; halal him on the clanging cymbals.
6 All you who breathe, halal Yah. Halalu Yah!