Psalms 41:1-119:176

LXX2012(i) 1 (42) For the end, [a Psalm] for instruction, for the sons of Core. As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for you, O God. 2 My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God? 4 I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of your wondrous tabernacle, [even] to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival. 5 Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; [he is] the salvation of my countenance. 6 O my God, my soul has been troubled within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Ermonites, from the little hill. 7 Deep calls to deep at the voice of your cataracts: all your billows and your waves have gone over me. 8 By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest [it] by night: with me [is] prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God, You are my helper; why have you forgotten me? therefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses [me]? 10 While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God? 11 Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; [he is] the health of my countenance, and my God. 42 1 (43) A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 2 For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses [me]? 3 Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles. 4 And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to you on the harp, O God, my God. 5 Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, [who is] the health of my countenance, [and] my God. 43 1 (44) For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old. 2 Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out. 3 For they inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them. 4 You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob. 5 In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us. 6 For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me. 7 For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us. 8 In God will we make our boast all the day, and to your name will we give thanks for ever. Pause. 9 But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts. 10 You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves. 11 You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us among the nations. 12 You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange. 13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision them that are round about us. 14 You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations. 15 All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me, 16 because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger. 17 All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your covenant. 18 And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way. 19 For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out? 21 for he knows the secrets of the heart. 22 For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter. 23 Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever. 24 Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction? 25 For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth. 26 Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake. 44 1 (45) For the end, for alternate [strains] by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer. 2 You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever. 3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty; 4 and bend [your bow], and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully. 5 Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) [they are] in the heart of the king's enemies. 6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness. 7 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows. 8 Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia [are exhaled] from your garments, [and] out of the ivory palaces, 9 with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, [and] arrayed in various colors. 10 Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house. 11 Because the king has desired your beauty; for he is your Lord. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor. 13 All her glory [is that] of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed [as she is] in golden fringed garments, 14 in embroidered [clothing]: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you. 15 They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple. 16 Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth. 17 They shall make mention of your name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to you for ever, even for ever and ever. 45 1 (46) For the end, for the sons of Core; a Psalm concerning secret things. God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us. 2 Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas. 3 Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause. 4 The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: the Most High has sanctified his tabernacle. 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her with his countenance. 6 The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause. 8 Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth. 9 Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. 46 1 (47) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core. Clap your hands, all you⌃ nations; shout to God with a voice of exultation. 2 For the Lord most high is terrible; [he is] a great king over all the earth. 3 He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause. 5 God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet. 6 Sing praises to our God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises. 7 For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding. 8 God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness. 9 The rulers of the people are assembled with the God of Abraam: for God's mighty ones of the earth have been greatly exalted. 47 1 (48) A Psalm of praise for the sons of Core on the second [day] of the week. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. 2 The city of the great King is well planted [on] the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, [on] the sides of the north. 3 God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her. 4 For, behold the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together. 5 They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved. 6 Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail. 7 You will break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind. 8 As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause. 9 We have thought of your mercy, O God, in the midst of your people. 10 According to your name, O God, so is also your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness. 11 Let mount Sion rejoice, let the daughters of Judaea exult, because of your judgments, O Lord. 12 Go round about Sion, and encompass her: tell you⌃ her towers. 13 Mark you⌃ well her strength, and observe her palaces; that you⌃ may tell the next generation. 14 For this is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide for evermore. 48 1 (49) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core. Hear these words, all you⌃ nations, listen, all you⌃ that dwell upon the earth: 2 both the sons of mean men, and sons of [great] men; the rich and poor [man] together. 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall bring [forth] understanding. 4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp. 5 Therefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me. 6 They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth— 7 A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself, 8 or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labor for ever, 9 and live to the end, [so] that he should not see corruption. 10 When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers. 11 And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, [even] their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names. 12 And man being in honor, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like to them. 13 This their way is an offense to them: yet afterwards men will commend their sayings. Pause. 14 They have laid [them] as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory. 15 But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause. 16 Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased. 17 For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him. 18 For his soul shall be blessed in his life: he shall give thanks to you when you do well to him. 19 [Yet] he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light. 20 Man that is in honor, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like them. 49 1 (50) A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof]. 2 Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty. 3 God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest. 4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Assemble you⌃ his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause. 7 Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God. 8 I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually. 9 I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks. 10 For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen. 11 I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine. 12 If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High. 15 And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. Pause. 16 But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth? 17 Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you]. 18 If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers. 19 Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit. 20 You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son. 21 These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, [but] I will reprove you, and set [your offenses] before you. 22 Now consider these things, you⌃ that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer. 23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God. 50 1 (51) For the end, a Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone to Bersabee. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your great mercy; and according to the multitude of your compassions blot out my transgression. 2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I am conscious of mine iniquity; and my sin is continually before me. 4 Against you only have I sinned, and done evil before you: that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged. 5 For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me. 6 For, behold, you love truth: you have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of your wisdom. 7 You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified: you shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. 8 You shall cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice. 9 Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit in my inward parts. 11 Cast me not away from your presence; and remove not your holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation: establish me with your directing Spirit. 13 [Then] will I teach transgressors your ways; and ungodly men shall turn to you. 14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall joyfully declare your righteousness. 15 O Lord, you shall open my lips; and my mouth shall declare your praise. 16 For if you desired sacrifice, I would have given [it]: you will not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings. 17 Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise. 18 Do good, O Lord, to Sion in your good pleasure; and let the walls of Jerusalem be built. 19 Then shall you be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness, offering, and whole burnt sacrifices: then shall they offer calves upon your altar. 51 1 (52) For the end, [a Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in [your] mischief? All the day 2 your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit. 3 You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. 4 You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue. 5 Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause. 6 And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say, 7 Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity. 8 But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore. 9 I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done [it]: and I will wait on your name; for [it is] good before the saints. 52 1 (53) For the end, [a Psalm] of David upon Maeleth, of instruction. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. 3 They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one. 4 Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear: 5 or God has scattered the bones of the men-pleasers; they were ashamed, for God despised them. 6 Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? When the Lord turns the captivity of his people, Jacob shall exult, and Israel shall be glad. 53 1 (54) For the end, among Hymns of instruction by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Behold, is not David hid with us? Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your might. 2 O God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause. 4 For behold! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul. 5 He shall return evil to mine enemies; utterly destroy them in your truth. 6 I will willingly sacrifice to you: I will give thanks to your name, O Lord; for [it is] good. 7 For you have delivered me out of all affliction, and mine eye has seen [my desire] upon mine enemies. 54 1 (55) For the end, among Hymns of instruction by David. Listen, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication. 2 Attend to me, and listen to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled; 3 because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me. 4 My heart was troubled within me; and the fear of death fell upon me. 5 Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings as [those] of a dove! then would I flee away, and be at rest. 7 Behold! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause. 8 I waited for him that should deliver me from distress of spirit and tempest. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gain saying in the city. 10 Day and night he shall go round about it upon its walls: iniquity and sorrow and unrighteousness [are] in the midst of it; 11 and usury and craft have not failed from its streets. 12 For if an enemy had reproached me, I would have endured it; and if one who hated [me] had spoken vauntingly against me, I would have hid myself from him. 13 But you, O man like minded, my guide, and my acquaintance, 14 who in companionship with me sweetened [our] food: we walked in the house of God in concord. 15 Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them. 16 I cried to God, and the Lord listened to me. 17 Evening, and morning, and at noon I will declare and make known [my wants]: and he shall hear my voice. 18 He shall deliver my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for they were with me in many [cases]. 19 God shall hear, and bring them low, [even] he that has existed from eternity. Pause. For they suffer no reverse, and [therefore] they have not feared God. 20 He has reached forth his hand for retribution; they have profaned his covenant. 21 They were scattered at the anger of his countenance, and his heart drew near them. His words were smoother than oil, yet are they darts. 22 Cast your care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain you; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. 23 But you, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in you, O Lord. 55 1 (56) For the end, concerning the people that were removed from the sanctuary, by David for a memorial, when the Philistines caught him in Geth. Have mercy upon me, O God; for man has trodden me down; all the day long he warring has afflicted me. 2 Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day from the dawning of the day; for there are many warring against me. 3 They shall be afraid, but I will trust in you. 4 In God I will praise my words; all the day have I hoped in God; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me. 5 All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices [are] against me for evil. 6 They will dwell near and hide [themselves]; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul. 7 You will on no account save them; you will bring down the people in wrath. 8 O God, I have declared my life to you; you has set my tears before you, even according to your promise. 9 Mine enemies shall be turned back, in the day wherein I shall call upon you; behold, I know that you are my God. 10 In God, will I praise [his] word; in the Lord will I praise [his] saying. 11 I have hoped in God; I will not be afraid of what man shall do to me. 12 The vows of your praise, O God, which I will pay, are upon me. 13 For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living. 56 1 (57) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul to the cave. Have mercy, upon me, O God, have mercy upon me: for my soul has trusted in you: and in the shadow of your wings will I hope, until the iniquity have passed away. 2 I will cry to God most high; the God who has benefited me. Pause. 3 He sent from heaven and saved me; he gave to reproach them that trampled on me: God has sent forth his mercy and his truth; 4 and he has delivered my soul from the midst of [lions']whelps: I lay down to sleep, [though] troubled. [As for] the sons of men, their teeth are arms and [missile] weapons, and their tongue a sharp sword. 5 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth. 6 They have prepared snares for my feet, and have bowed down my soul: they have dug a pit before my face, and fallen into it [themselves]. Pause. 7 My heart, O God, [is] ready, my heart [is] ready: I will sing, yes will sing psalms. 8 Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will awake early. 9 O Lord, I will give thanks to you among the nations: I will sing to you among the Gentiles. 10 For your mercy has been magnified even to the heavens, and your truth to the clouds. 11 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth. 57 1 (58) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men. 2 For you⌃ work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness. 3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies. 4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears; 5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise. 6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions. 7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail. 8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun. 9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. 11 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth. 58 1 (59) For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 3 For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. 4 Without iniquity I ran and directed [my course aright]: awake to help me, and behold. 5 And you, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw near to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause. 6 They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city. 7 Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [say they], has heard? 8 But you, Lord, will laugh them to scorn; you will utterly set at nothing all the heathen. 9 will keep my strength, [looking] to you; for you, O God, are my helper. 10 [As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me [vengeance] on mine enemies. 11 Slay them not, lest they forget your law; scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender. 12 [For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride. 13 And for [their] cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced: [they shall fall] by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord of the ends of the earth. Pause. 14 They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city. 15 They shall be scattered hither and there for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur. 16 But I will sing to your strength, and in the morning will I exult [in] your mercy; for you have been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of mine affliction. 17 [You are] my helper; to you, my God, will I sing; you are my supporter, O my God, [and] my mercy. 59 1 (60) For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab [had] returned and struck [in] the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, you have rejected and destroyed us; you have been angry, yet have pitied us. 2 You have shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken. 3 You have shown your people hard things: you has made us drink the wine of astonishment. 4 You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. Pause. 5 That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me. 6 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents. 7 Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; 8 Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me. 9 Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea? 10 Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces? 11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man. 12 In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nothing them that harass us. 60 1 (61) For the end, among the Hymns of David. O God, listen to my petition; attend to my prayer. 2 From the ends of the earth have I cried to you, when my heart was in trouble: you lifted me up on a rock you did guide me: 3 because you were my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy. 4 I will dwell in your tabernacle for ever; I will shelter myself under the shadow of your wings. Pause. 5 For you, o God, have heard my prayers; you have given an inheritance to them that fear your name. 6 You shall add days to the days of the king; [you shall lengthen] his years to all generations. 7 He shall endure for ever before God: which of them will seek out his mercy and truth? 8 So will I sing to your name for ever and ever, that I may daily perform my vows. 61 1 (62) For the end, a Psalm of David for Idithun. Shall not my soul be subjected to God? for of him is my salvation. 2 For he is my God, and my savior; my helper, I shall not be moved very much. 3 How long will you⌃ assault a man? you⌃ are all slaughtering as with a bowed wall and a broken hedge. 4 They only took counsel to set at nothing mine honor: I ran in thirst: with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause. 5 Nevertheless do you, my soul, be subjected to God; for of him [is] my patient hope. 6 For he [is] my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved. 7 In God [is] my salvation and my glory: [he is] the God of my help, and my hope is in God. 8 Hope in him, all you⌃ congregation of the people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our helper. Pause. 9 But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike [formed] out of vanity. 10 Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies: if wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it. 11 God has spoken once, [and] I have heard these two things, that power is of God; 12 and mercy is your, O Lord; for you will recompense every one according to his works. 62 1 (63) A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Idumea. O God, my God, I cry to you early; my soul has thirsted for you: how often has my flesh [longed] after you, in a barren and trackless and dry land! 2 Thus have I appeared before you in the sanctuary, that I might see your power and your glory. 3 For your mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise you. 4 Thus will I bless you during my life: I will lift up my hands in your name. 5 Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and [my] joyful lips shall praise your name. 6 Forasmuch as I have remembered you on my bed: in the early seasons I have meditated on you. 7 For you have been my helper, and in the shelter of your wings will I rejoice. 8 My soul has kept very close behind you: your right hand has upheld me. 9 But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth. 10 They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for foxes. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall be praised; for the mouth of them that speak unjust things has been stopped. 63 1 (64) For the end, a Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to you; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy. 2 You have sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity; 3 who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously; 4 to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear. 5 They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them? 6 They have searched out iniquity; they have wearied themselves with searching diligently, a man shall approach and the heart is deep, 7 and God shall be exalted, their wounds were [caused by] the weapon of the foolish children, 8 and their tongues have set him at nothing, all that saw them were troubled; 9 and every man was alarmed, and they related the works of God, and understood his deeds. 10 The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and hope on him, and all the upright in heart shall be praised. 64 1 (65) For the end, a Psalm [and] Song of David. Praise becomes you, O God, in Sion; and to you shall the vow be performed. 2 Hear my prayer; to you all flesh shall come. 3 The words of transgressors have overpowered us; but do you pardon our sins. 4 Blessed [is he] whom you have chosen and adopted; he shall dwell in your courts; we shall be filled with the good things of your house; your temple is holy. 5 [You are] wonderful in righteousness. Listen to us, O God our Saviour; the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them [that are] on the sea afar off: 6 who do establish the mountains in your strength, being girded about with power; 7 who trouble the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves. 8 The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends [of the earth] shall be afraid of your signs; you will cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice. 9 You have visited the earth, and saturated it; you have abundantly enriched it. The river of God is filled with water; you have prepared their food, for thus is the preparation [of it]. 10 Saturate her furrows, multiply her fruits; [the crop] springing up shall rejoice in its drops. 11 You will bless the crown of the year [because] of your goodness; and your plains shall be filled with fatness. 12 The mountains of the wilderness shall be enriched; and the hills shall gird themselves with joy. 13 The rams of the flock are clothed [with wool], and the valleys shall abound in corn; they shall cry aloud, yes they shall sing hymns. 65 1 (66) For the end, a Song of Psalm of resurrection. Shout to God, all the earth. 2 O sing praises to his name; give glory to his praise. 3 Say to God, How awful are your works! through the greatness of your power your enemies shall lie to you. 4 Let all the earth worship you, and sing to you; let them sing to your name. Pause. 5 Come and behold the works of God; [he is] terrible in [his] counsels beyond the children of men. 6 Who turns the sea into dry land; they shall go through the river on foot; there shall we rejoice in him, 7 who by his power is Lord over the age, his eyes look upon the nations; let not them that provoke [him] be exalted in themselves. Pause. 8 Bless our God, you⌃ Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise to be heard; 9 who quickens my soul in life, and does not suffer my feet to be moved. 10 For you, O God, has proved us; you have tried us with fire as silver is tried. 11 You brought us into the snare; you laid afflictions on our back. 12 You did mount men upon our heads; we went through the fire and water; but you brought us out into [a place of] refreshment. 13 I will go into your house with whole burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows, 14 which my lips framed, and my mouth uttered in my affliction. 15 I will offer to you whole burnt sacrifices full of marrow, with incense and rams; I will sacrifice to you oxen with goats. Pause. 16 Come, hear, and I will tell, all you⌃ that fear God, how great things he has done for my soul. 17 I cried to him with my mouth, and exalted him with my tongue. 18 If I have regarded iniquity in my heart, let not the Lord listen [to me]. 19 Therefore God has listened to me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. 20 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. 66 1 (67) For the end, a Psalm of David among the Hymns. God be merciful to us, and bless us; [and] cause his face to shine upon us. Pause. 2 That [men] may know your way on the earth, your salvation among all nations. 3 Let the nations, O God, give thanks to you; let all the nations give thanks to you. 4 Let the nations rejoice and exult, for you shall judge the peoples in equity, and shall guide the nations on the earth. Pause. 5 Let the peoples, O God, give thanks to you; let all the peoples give thanks to you. 6 The earth has yielded her fruit; let God, our God bless us. 7 Let God bless us; and let all the ends of the earth fear him. 67 1 (68) For the end, a Psalm of a Song by David. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; and let them that hate him flee from before him. 2 As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God. 3 But let the righteous rejoice; let them exult before God: let them be delighted with joy. 4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name: make a way for him that rides upon the west (the Lord is his name) and exult before him. They shall be troubled before the face of him, 5 [who is] the father of the orphans, and judge of the widows: [such is] God in his holy place. 6 God settles the solitary in a house; leading forth prisoners mightily, also them that act provokingly, [even] them that dwell in tombs. 7 O God, when you went forth before your people, when you went through the wilderness; Pause: 8 the earth quaked, yes, the heavens dropped [water] at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel. 9 O God, you will grant to your inheritance a gracious rain; for it was weary, but you did refresh it. 10 Your creatures dwell in it: you have in your goodness prepared for the poor. 11 The Lord God will give a word to them that preach [it] in a great company. 12 The king of the forces of the beloved, of the beloved, [will] even [grant them] for the beauty of the house to divide the spoils. 13 Even if you⌃ should lie among the lots, [you⌃ shall have] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her breast with yellow gold. 14 When the heavenly One scatters kings upon it, they shall be made snow-white in Selmon. 15 The mountain of God is a rich mountain; a swelling mountain, a rich mountain. 16 Therefore do you⌃ conceive [evil], you⌃ swelling mountains? [this is] the mountain which God has delighted to dwell in; yes, the Lord will dwell [in it] for ever. 17 The chariots of God are ten thousand fold, thousands of rejoicing ones: the Lord is among them, in Sina, in the holy place. 18 You are gone up on high, you have led captivity captive, you have received gifts for man, yes, for [they were] rebellious, that you might dwell among them. 19 Blessed be the Lord God, blessed be the Lord daily; and the God of our salvation shall prosper us. Pause. 20 Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord belong the issues from death. 21 But God shall crust the heads of his enemies; the hairy crown of them that go on in their trespasses. 22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Basan, I will bring [my people] again through the depths of the sea. 23 That your foot may be dipped in blood, [and] the tongue of your dogs [be stained] with that of [your] enemies. 24 Your goings, O God, have been seen; the goings of my God, the king, in the sanctuary. 25 The princes went first, next before the players on instruments, in the midst of damsels playing on timbrels. 26 Praise God in the congregations, the Lord from the fountains of Israel. 27 There is Benjamin the younger [one] in ecstasy, the princes of Juda their rulers, the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali. 28 O God, command you your strength: strengthen, O God, this which you have wrought in us. 29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to you. 30 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations [be rebuked], so that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: scatter you the nations that wish for wars. 31 Ambassadors shall arrive out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hasten [to stretch out] her hand readily to God. 32 Sing to God, you⌃ kingdoms of the earth; sing psalms to the Lord. Pause. 33 Sing to God that rides on the heaven of heaven, eastward: behold, he will utter a mighty sound with his voice. 34 Give you⌃ glory to God: his excellency is over Israel, and his power is in the clouds. 35 God is wonderful in his holy [places], the God of Israel: he will give power and strength to his people: blessed be God. 68 1 (69) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, for alternate [strains]. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. 2 I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me. 3 I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you. 6 Let not them that wait on you, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek you, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel. 7 For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face. 8 I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children. 9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me. 10 And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach. 11 And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them. 12 They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me. 13 But I [will cry] to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation. 14 Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it]: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me. 17 And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily. 18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. 19 For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you. 20 My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none. 21 They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst. 22 Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block. 23 Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually. 24 Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them. 25 Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents: 26 Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous. 29 I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me. 30 I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise; 31 and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs. 32 Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you⌃ shall live. 33 For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones. 34 Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them. 35 For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and [men] shall dwell there, and inherit it. 36 And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein. 69 1 (70) For the end, by David for a remembrance, that the Lord may save me. Draw near, O God, to my help. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil. 3 Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately. 4 Let all that seek you exult and be glad in you: and let those that love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. 5 But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: you are my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not. 70 1 (71) By David, [a Psalm sung by] the sons of Jonadab, and the first that were taken captive. O Lord, I have hoped in you: let me never 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 protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for you are my fortress and my refuge. 4 Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the transgressor and unjust man. 5 For you are my support, O Lord; O Lord, [you are] my hope from my youth. 6 On you have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother you are my protector: of you is my praise continually. 7 I am become as it were a wonder to many: but you are [my] strong helper. 8 Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may hymn your glory, [and] your majesty all the day. 9 Cast me not off at the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails. 10 For mine enemies have spoken against me; and they that lay wait for my soul have taken counsel together, 11 saying, God has forsaken him: persecute you⌃ and take him; for there is none to deliver [him]. 12 O God, go not far from me, O my God, draw near to my help. 13 Let those that plot against my soul be ashamed and utterly fail: let those that seek my hurt be clothed with shame and dishonor. 14 But I will hope continually, and will praise you more and more. 15 My mouth shall declare your righteousness openly, [and] your salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs [of men]. 16 I will go on in the might of the Lord: O Lord, I will make mention of your righteousness only. 17 O God, you have taught me from my youth, and until now will I declare your wonders; 18 even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I shall have declared your arm to all the generation that is to come: 19 even your power and your righteousness, O God, up to the highest [heavens, even] the mighty works which you has done: O God, who is like to you? 20 What afflictions many and sore have you showed me! yet you did turn and quicken me, and brought me again from the depths of the earth. 21 You did multiply your righteousness, and did turn and comfort me, and brought me again out of the depths of the earth. 22 I will also therefore give thanks to you, O God, [because of] your truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to you on the harp, O Holy One of Israel. 23 My lips shall rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed. 24 Moreover also my tongue shall dwell all the day upon your righteousness; when they shall be ashamed and confounded that seek my hurt. 71 1 (72) For Solomon. O God, give your judgment to the king, and your righteousness to the king's son; 2 [that he may] judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment. 3 Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to your people: 4 he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser. 5 And he shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon for ever. 6 He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth. 7 In his days shall righteousness spring up; and abundance of peace till the moon be removed. 8 And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. 9 The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. 10 The kings of Tharsis, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Saba shall offer gifts. 11 And all kings shall worship him; all the Gentiles shall serve him. 12 For he has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper. 13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall deliver the souls of the needy. 14 He shall redeem their souls from usury and injustice: and their name [shall be] precious before him. 15 And he shall live, and there shall be given him of the gold of Arabia: and [men] shall pray for him continually; [and] all the day shall they praise him. 16 There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: the fruit thereof shall be exalted above Libanus, and they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth. 17 Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed. 18 Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders. 19 And blessed is his glorious name for ever, even for ever and ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his glory. So be it, so be it. 20 The hymns of David the son of Jessae are ended. 72 1 (73) A Psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! 2 But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped. 3 For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners. 4 For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and [they have] firmness under their affliction. 5 They are not in the troubles of [other] men; and they shall not be scourged with [other] men. 6 Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. 7 Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention. 8 They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily. 9 They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth. 10 Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them. 11 And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Behold, these [are] the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth. 13 And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency. 14 For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof [was] every morning. 15 If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I [should] have broken covenant with the generation of your children. 16 And I undertook to understand this, [but] it is too hard for me, 17 until I go into the sanctuary of God; [and so] understand the latter end. 18 Surely you have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings: you have cast them down when they were lifted up. 19 How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity. 20 As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in your city you will despise their image. 21 For my heart has rejoiced, and my reins have been gladdened. 22 But I [was] vile and knew not: I became brutish before you. 23 Yet I am continually with you: you have holden my right hand. 24 You have guided me by your counsel, and you have taken me to yourself with glory. 25 For what have I in heaven [but you]? and what have I desired upon the earth beside you? 26 My heart and my flesh have failed: [but] God [is the strength] of my heart, and God is my portion for ever. 27 For, behold, they that remove themselves far from you shall perish: you have destroyed every one that goes a whoring from you. 28 But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. 73 1 (74) [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Therefore have you rejected [us], O God, for ever? [therefore] is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture? 2 Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived. 3 Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places. 4 And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs, 5 ignorantly as it were in the entrance above; 6 they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. 7 They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name. 8 They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. 9 We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more. 10 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever? 11 Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever? 12 But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water. 14 You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations. 15 You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up mighty rivers. 16 The day is your, and the night is your; you have prepared the sun and the moon. 17 You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring. 18 Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name. 19 Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor. 20 Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity. 21 let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name. 22 Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. 23 Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you. 74 1 (75) For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph. We will give thanks to you, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon your name: I will declare all your wonderful works. 2 When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously. 3 The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause. 4 I said to the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn. 5 Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God. 6 For [good comes] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains. 7 For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another. 8 For [there is] a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and he has turned [it] from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink [them]. 9 But I will exult for ever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 And I will break all the horns of sinners; but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted. 75 1 (76) For the end, among the Hymns, a Psalm for Asaph; a Song for the Assyrian. God is known in Judea: his name is great in Israel. 2 And his place has been in peace, and his dwelling-place in Sion. 3 There he broke the power of the bows, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause. 4 You do wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains. 5 All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands. 6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered. 7 You are terrible; and who shall withstand you, because of your anger? 8 You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, 9 when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart. Pause. 10 For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to you: and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to you. 11 Vow, and pay [your vows] to the Lord our God; all that are round about him shall bring gifts, [even] to him that is terrible, 12 and that takes away the spirits of princes; to him that is terrible among the kings of the earth. 76 1 (77) For the end, for Idithun, a Psalm of Asaph. I cried to the Lord with my voice, yes, my voice [was addressed] to God; and he gave heed to me. 2 In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; [even] with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause. 4 All mine enemies set a watch [against me]: I was troubled, and spoke not. 5 I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient years. 6 And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, [saying], 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more? 8 Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever? 9 Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause. 10 And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember your wonders from the beginning. 12 And I will meditate on all your works, and will consider your doings. 13 O God, your way is in the sanctuary; who is a great God as our God? 14 You are the God that do wonders; you have made known your power among the nations. 15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Pause. 16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and feared; and the depths were troubled. 17 [There was] an abundant sound of waters: the clouds uttered a voice; for your arrows went abroad. 18 The voice of your thunder was abroad, and around your lightnings appeared to the world; the earth trembled a quaked. 19 Your way is in the sea, and your paths in many waters, and your footsteps can’t be known. 20 You did guide your people as sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 77 1 (78) [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning. 3 All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. 4 They were not hid from their children to a second generations; [the fathers] declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought. 5 And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children: 6 that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children. 7 That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments. 8 That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God. 9 The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting [with] the bow, turned [back] in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law. 11 And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he [had] showed them; 12 the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes. 13 He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as [in] a bottle. 14 And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire. 15 he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep. 16 And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers. 17 And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness. 18 And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for [the desire of] their souls. 19 They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness? 20 Forasmuch as he struck the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people? 21 Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel. 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. 23 Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 24 and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. 25 Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provision to the full. 26 He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the southwest wind. 27 And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas. 28 And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents. 29 So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire. 30 They were not disappointed of their desire: [but] when their food was yet in their mouth, 31 then the indignation of God rose up against them, and killed the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel. 32 In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles. 33 And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety. 34 When he killed them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God. 35 And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer. 36 Yet they loved him [only] with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. 37 For their heart [was] not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant. 38 But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy [them]: yes, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger. 39 And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not. 40 How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] anger him in a dry land! 41 Yes, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes: 44 and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink. 45 He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them. 46 And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labors to the locust. 47 He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost. 48 And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire. 49 He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels. 50 He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death; 51 and struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of their labors in the tents of Cham. 52 And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness. 53 And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies. 54 And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased. 55 And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies. 57 And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow. 58 And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 God heard and lightly regarded [them], and greatly despised Israel. 60 And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he lived among men. 61 And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand. 62 And he gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance. 63 Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for. 65 So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] as a mighty man who has been heated with wine. 66 And he struck his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach. 67 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; 68 but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary as [the place] of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth. 70 He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep. 71 He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance. 72 So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. 78 1 (79) A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. 2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants [to be] food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. 3 They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them]. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them [that are] round about us. 5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon your name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste. 8 Remember not our old transgressions; let your tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished. 9 Help us, O God our Saviour; for the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for your name's sake. 10 Lets haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of your servant's blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes. 11 Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before you; according to the greatness of your arm preserve the sons of the slain ones. 12 Repay to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached you, O Lord. 13 For we are your people and the sheep of your pasture; we will give you thanks for ever; we will declare your praise throughout all generations. 79 1 (80) For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guide Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubs, manifest yourself; 2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us. 3 Turn us, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be delivered. 4 O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant? 5 You will feed us with bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure. 6 You has made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us. 7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause. 8 You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 You made a way before it, and did cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it]. 10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars. 11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river. 12 Therefore have you broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it? 13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it. 14 O God of hosts, turn, we pray you: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; 15 and restore that which your right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself. 16 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of your presence. 17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, and upon the son of man whom you did strengthen for yourself. 18 So will we not depart from you: you shall quicken us, and we will call upon your name. 19 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make your face to shine; and we shall be saved. 80 1 (81) For the end, a Psalm for Asaph, concerning the wine presses. Rejoice you⌃ in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant lute with the harp. 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast. 4 For [this] is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. 5 He made it [to be] a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not. 6 He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets. 7 You did call upon me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm: I proved you at the water of Strife. Pause. 8 Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you: if you will listen to me; 9 there shall be no new god in you; neither shall you worship a strange god. 10 For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people listened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me. 12 So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways. 13 If my people had listened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways, 14 I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them. 15 The Lord's enemies [should have] lied to him: but their time shall be for ever. 16 And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock. 81 1 (82) A Psalm for Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods. 2 How long will you⌃ judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. 3 Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy. 4 Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner. 5 They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. 6 I have said, You⌃ are gods; and all [of you] children of the Most High. 7 But you⌃ die as men, and fall as one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations. 82 1 (83) A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be still, O God. 2 For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head. 3 Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints. 4 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. 5 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against you; 6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause. 9 Do you to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. 10 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes: 12 who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. 13 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind. 14 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; 15 so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger. 16 Fill their faces with dishonor; so shall they seek your name, O Lord. 17 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed. 18 And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth. 83 1 (84) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine presses. How amiable are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god. 3 Yes, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will praise you evermore. Pause. 5 Blessed is the man whose help is of you, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up 6 the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for [there] the law-giver will grant blessings. 7 They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion. 8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: listen, O God of Jacob. Pause. 9 Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of your anointed. 10 For one day in your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners. 11 For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence. 12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you. 84 1 (85) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core. O Lord, you has taken pleasure in your land: you have turned back the captivity of Jacob. 2 You have forgiven your people their transgressions; you has covered all their sins. Pause. 3 You has caused all your wrath to cease: you have turned from your fierce anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn your anger away from us. 5 Wouldest you be angry with us for ever? or will you continue your wrath from generation to generation? 6 O God, you will turn and quicken us; and your people shall rejoice in you. 7 Show us your mercy, O Lord, and grant us your salvation. 8 I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those that turn their heart toward him. 9 Moreover his salvation is near them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed [each other]. 11 Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven. 12 For the Lord will give goodness; and our land shall yield her fruit. 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set his steps in the way. 85 1 (86) A Prayer of David. O Lord, incline your ear, and listen to me; for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save your servant, O God, who hopes in you. 3 Pity me, O Lord: for to you will I cry all the day. 4 Rejoice the sold of your servant: for to you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. 5 For you, O Lord, are kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon you. 6 Give ear to my prayer, o Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication. 7 In the day of my trouble I cried to you: for you did hear me. 8 There is none like to you, O Lord, among the god; and there are no [works] like to your works. 9 All nations whom you have made shall come, and shall worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name. 10 For you are great, and do wonders: you are the only [and] the great God. 11 Guide me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth: let my heart rejoice, that I may fear your name. 12 I will give you thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify your name for ever. 13 For your mercy is great toward me; and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God, transgressors have risen up against me, and an assembly of violent [men] have sought my life; and have not set you before them. 15 But you, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true. 16 Look you upon me, and have mercy upon me: give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your handmaid. 17 Establish with me a token for good; and let them that hate me see [it] and be ashamed; because you, O Lord, have helped me, and comforted me. 86 1 (87) A Psalm of a Song for the sons of Core. His foundations are in the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loves the gates of Sion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob. 3 Glorious things have been spoken of you, O city of God. Pause. 4 I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there. 5 A man shall say, Sion [is my] mother; and [such] a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her. 6 The Lord shall recount [it] in the writing of the people, and of these princes that were born in her. 7 The dwelling of all within you is [as the dwelling] of those that rejoice. 87 1 (88) A song of a Psalm for the sons of Core for the end, upon Maeleth for responsive [strains], of instruction for Aeman the Israelite. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before you. 2 Let my prayer come in before you; incline your ear to my supplication, O Lord. 3 For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn near to Hades. 4 I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; 5 free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom you remember no more; and they are rejected from your hand. 6 They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark [places], and in the shadow of death. 7 Your wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and you have brought upon me all your billows. Pause. 8 You have removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth. 9 Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to you, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to you. 10 Will you work wonders for the dead? or shall physicians raise [them] up, that they shall praise you? 11 Shall any one declare your mercy in the tomb? and your truth in destruction? 12 Shall your wonders be known in darkness? and your righteousness in a forgotten land? 13 But I cried to you, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you. 14 Therefore, O Lord, do you reject my prayer, [and] turn your face away from me? 15 I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair. 16 Your wrath has passed over me; and your terrors have greatly disquieted me. 17 They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together. 18 You have put far from me [every] friend, and mine acquaintances because of [my] wretchedness. 88 1 (89) [A Psalm] of instruction for Aetham the Israelite. I will sing of your mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare your truth with my mouth to all generations. 2 For you have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your truth shall be established in the heavens. 3 I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware to David my servant. 4 I will establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. 5 The heavens shall declare your wonders, O Lord; and your truth in the assembly of the saints. 6 For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? 7 God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him. 8 O Lord God of hosts, who is like to you? you are mighty, O Lord, and your truth is round about you. 9 You rule the power of the sea; and you calm the tumult of its waves. 10 You has brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of your power you has scattered your enemies. 11 The heavens are your, and the earth is your: you have founded the world, and the fullness of it. 12 You have created the north and the west: Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name. 13 Your is the mighty arm: let your hand be strengthened, let your right hand be exalted. 14 Justice and judgment are the establishment of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face. 15 Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. 16 And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted. 17 For you are the boast of their strength; and in your good pleasure shall our horn be exalted, 18 for [our] help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our king. 19 Then you spoke in vision to your children, and said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of my people. 20 I have found David my servant; I have anointed him by [my] holy mercy. 21 For my hand shall support him; and mine arm shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall have no advantage against him; and the son of transgression shall not hurt him again. 23 And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him. 24 But my truth and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 25 And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He shall call upon me, [saying], You are my Father, my God, and the helper of my salvation. 27 And I will make him [my] firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28 I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenant [shall be] firm with him. 29 And I will establish his seed for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children should forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 if they should profane my ordinances, and not keep my commandments; 32 I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges. 33 But my mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong my truth. 34 Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie to David. 36 His see shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me; 37 and as the moon [that is] established for ever, and as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause. 38 But you have cast off and set at nothing, you has rejected your anointed. 39 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant; you has profaned his sanctuary, [casting it] to the ground. 40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have made his strong holds a terror. 41 All that go by the way have spoiled him: he is become a reproach to his neighbors. 42 You have exalted the right hand of his enemies; you have made all his enemies to rejoice. 43 You have turned back the help of his sword, and have not helped him in the battle. 44 You have deprived him of glory: you have broken down his throne to the ground. 45 You have shortened the days of his throne: you have poured shame upon him. Pause. 46 How long, O Lord, will you turn away, for ever? shall your anger flame out as fire? 47 Remember what my being is: for have you created all the sons of men in vain? 48 What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall [any one] deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause. 49 Where are your ancient mercies, O Lord, which you sware to David in your truth? 50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of your servants, which I have borne in my bosom, [even the reproach] of many nations; 51 wherewith your enemies have reviled, O Lord: wherewith they have reviled the recompense of your anointed. 52 Blessed be the Lord for ever. So be it, so be it. 89 1 (90) A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. 2 Before the mountains existed, and [before] the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, You are. 3 Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas you said, Return, you⌃ sons of men? 4 For a thousand years in your sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass. 6 In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up. 7 For we have perished in your anger, and in your wrath we have been troubled. 8 You have set our transgressions before you: our age is in the light of your countenance. 9 For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in your wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider. 10 [As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened. 11 Who knows the power of your wrath? 12 and [who knows how] to number [his days] because of the fear of your wrath? So manifest your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart. 13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated concerning your servants. 14 We have been satisfied in the morning with your mercy; and we did exult and rejoice: 15 let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein you did afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil. 16 And look upon your servants, and upon your works; and guide their children. 17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do you direct for us the works of our hands. 90 1 (91) Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. 2 He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him. 3 For he shall deliver you from the snare of the hunters, from [every] troublesome matter. 4 He shall overshadow you with his shoulders, and you shall trust under his wings: his truth shall cover you with a shield. 5 You shall not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day; 6 [nor] of the [evil] thing that walks in darkness; [nor] of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day. 7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. 9 For you, O Lord, are my hope: you, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge. 10 No evils shall come upon you, and no scourge shall draw near to your dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge concerning you, to keep you in all your ways. 12 They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread on the asp and basilisk: and you shall trample on the lion and dragon. 14 For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he has known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will listen to him: I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him. 16 I will satisfy him with length of days, and show him my salvation. 91 1 (92) A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath-day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O you Most High; 2 to proclaim your mercy in the morning, and your truth by night, 3 on a lute of ten strings, with a song on the harp. 4 For you, O Lord, have made me glad with your work: and in the operations of your hands will I exult. 5 How have your works been magnified, O Lord! your thoughts are very deep. 6 A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. 7 When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; [it is] that they may be utterly destroyed for ever. 8 But you, O Lord, are most high for ever. 9 For, behold, your enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 10 But my horn shall be exalted [as the horn] of a unicorn; and mine old age with rich mercy. 11 And mine eye has seen mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me. 12 The righteous shall flourish as a palm tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus. 13 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare 15 that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him. 92 1 (93) For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was [first] inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honor: the Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; for he has established the world, which shall not be moved. 2 Your throne is prepared of old: you are from everlasting. 3 The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices, 4 at the voices of many waters: the billows of the sea are wonderful: the Lord is wonderful in high places. 5 Your testimonies are made very sure: holiness becomes your house, O Lord, for ever. 93 1 (94) A Psalm of David for the fourth [day] of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself. 2 Be you exalted, you that judge the earth: render a reward to the proud. 3 How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast? 4 They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak [so]. 5 They have afflicted your people, O Lord, and hurt your heritage. 6 They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger. 7 And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand. 8 Understand now, you⌃ simple among the people; and you⌃ fools, at length be wise. 9 He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive? 10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, [even] he that teaches man knowledge? 11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain. 12 Blessed is the man whoever you shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of your law; 13 to give him rest from evil days, until a pit be digged for the sinful one. 14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance; 15 until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Pause. 16 Who will rise up for me against the transgressors? or who will stand up with me against the workers of iniquity? 17 If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades. 18 If I said, My foot has been moved; 19 your mercy, O Lord, helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, your consolation have soothed my soul. 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by an ordinance? 21 They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. 22 But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope. 23 And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them. 94 1 (95) The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people. 4 For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his. 5 For the sea is his, and he made it: and is hands formed the dry land. 6 Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us. 7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. 8 To-day, if you⌃ will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness: 9 where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. 10 Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. 95 1 (96) When the house was built after the Captivity, a Song of David. Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name: proclaim his salvation from day to day. 3 Publish his glory among the Gentiles, his wonderful works among all people. 4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is terrible above all gods. 5 For all the gods of the heathen are devils: but the Lord made the heavens. 6 Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary. 7 Bring to the Lord, you⌃ families of the Gentiles, bring to the Lord glory and honor. 8 Bring to the Lord the glory [becoming] his name: take offerings, and go into his courts. 9 Worship the Lord in his holy court: let all the earth tremble before him. 10 Say among the heathen, The Lord reigns: for he has established the world so that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people in righteousness. 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth exult; let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it. 12 The plains shall rejoice, and all things in them: then shall all the trees of the wood exult before the presence of the Lord: 13 for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the people with his truth. 96 1 (97) For David, when his land is established. The Lord reigns, let the earth exult, let many islands rejoice. 2 Cloud, and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne. 3 Fire shall go before him, and burn up his enemies round about. 4 His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled. 5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 6 The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory. 7 Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship him, all you⌃ his angels. 8 Sion heard and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judea exulted, because of your judgments, O Lord. 9 For you are Lord most high over all the earth; you are greatly exalted above all gods. 10 You⌃ that love the Lord, hate evil; the Lord preserves the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of sinners. 11 Light is sprung up for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. 12 Rejoice in the Lord, you⌃ righteous; and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness. 97 1 (98) A Psalm of David. Sing to the Lord a new song; for the Lord has wrought wonderful works, his right hand, and his holy arm, have wrought salvation for him. 2 The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 3 He has remembered his mercy to Jacob, and his truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4 Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms. 5 Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king. 7 Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it. 8 The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult. 9 For he is come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness. 98 1 (99) A Psalm of David. The Lord reigns; —let the people rage; [it is he] that sits upon the cherubs, let the earth be moved. 2 The Lord is great in Sion, and is high over all the people. 3 Let them give thanks to your great name; for it is terrible and holy. 4 And the king's honor loves judgment; you have prepared equity, you have wrought judgment and justice in Jacob. 5 Exalt you⌃ the Lord our God, and worship [at] his footstool; for he is holy. 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he heard them. 7 He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the ordinances which he gave them. 8 O Lord our God, you heard them; O God, you became propitious to them, though you did take vengeance on all their devices. 9 Exalt you⌃ the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy. 99 1 (100) A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exultation. 3 Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name. 5 For the Lord is good, his mercy is for ever; and his truth [endures] to generation and generation. 100 1 (101) A Psalm of David. I will sing to you, O Lord, of mercy and judgment; I will sing a psalm, 2 and I will be wise in a blameless way. When will you come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. 3 I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful ting; I have hated transgressors. 4 A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me. 5 Him that privily speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from [me]: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, —with him I have not eaten. 6 Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me. 7 The proud doer lived not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight. 8 Early did I kill all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity. 101 1 (102) A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you. 2 Turn not away your face from me: in the day [when] I am afflicted, incline your ear to me: in the day [when] I shall call upon you, speedily hear me. 3 For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. 4 I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh. 6 I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; 7 I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof. 8 All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me. 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping; 10 because of your anger and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and dashed me down. 11 My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass. 12 But you, Lord, endure for ever, and your memorial to generation and generation. 13 You shall arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for [it is] time to have mercy upon her, for the set time is come. 14 For your servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust. 15 So the nations shall fear your name, O Lord, and all kings your glory. 16 For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory. 17 He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition. 18 Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord. 19 For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven; 20 to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain; 21 to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem; 22 when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord. 23 He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days. 24 Take me not away in the midst of my days: your years [are] through all generations. 25 In the beginning you, O Lord, did lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands. 26 They shall perish, but you remain: and [they all] shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shall you fold them, and they shall be changed. 27 But you are the same, and your years shall not fail. 28 The children of your servants shall dwell [securely], and their seed shall prosper for ever. 102 1 (103) [A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all [that is] within me, [bless] his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises: 3 who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases; 4 who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion; 5 who satisfies your desire with good things: [so that] your youth shall be renewed like [that] of the eagle. 6 The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his will to the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, longsuffering, and full of mercy. 9 He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has [so] increased his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, [so far] has he removed our transgressions from us. 13 As a father pities [his] children, the Lord pities them that fear him. 14 For he knows our frame: remember that we are dust. 15 [As for] man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more. 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children; 18 to them that keep his covenant, and remember his commandments to do them. 19 The Lord has prepared his throne in the heaven; and his kingdom rules over all. 20 Bless the Lord, all you⌃ his angels, mighty in strength, who perform his bidding, [ready] to listen to the voice of his words. 21 Bless the Lord, all you⌃ his hosts; [you⌃] ministers of his that do his will. 22 Bless the Lord, all his works, in every place of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul. 103 1 (104) [A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you have clothed yourself with praise and honor: 2 who do robe yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain. 3 Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind. 4 Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire. 5 Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: it shall not be moved for ever. 6 The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand on the hills. 7 At your rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of your thunder they shall be alarmed. 8 They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which you have founded for them. 9 You have set a bound which they shall not pass, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth. 10 He sends forth his fountains among the valleys: the waters shall run between the mountains. 11 They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field: the wild asses shall take [of them] to [quench] their thirst. 12 By them shall the birds of the sky lodge: they shall utter a voice out of the midst of the rocks. 13 He waters the mountains from his chambers: the earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of your works. 14 He makes grass to grow for the cattle, and green herb for the service of men, to bring bread out of the earth; 15 and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face cheerful with oil: and bread strengthens man's heart. 16 The trees of the plain shall be full [of sap]; [even] the cedars of Libanus which he has planted. 17 There the sparrows will build their nests; and the house of the heron takes the lead among them. 18 The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, [and] the rock for the rabbits. 19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down. 20 You did make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad: 21 [even] young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God. 22 The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens. 23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labor till evening. 24 How great are your works, O Lord! in wisdom have you wrought them all: the earth is filled with your creation. 25 [So is] this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great. 26 There go the ships; [and] this dragon whom you have made to play in it. 27 All wait upon you, to give them [their] food in due season. 28 When you have given [it] them, they will gather [it]; and when you have opened your hand, they shall all be filled with good. 29 But when you have turned away your face, they shall be troubled: you will take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust. 30 You shall send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created; and you shall renew the face of the earth. 31 Let the glory of the Lord be for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works; 32 who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke. 33 I will sing to the Lord while I live; I will sing praise to my God while I exist. 34 Let my meditation be sweet to him: and I will rejoice in the Lord. 35 Let the sinners fail from off the earth, and transgressors, so that they shall be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul. 104 1 (105) Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen. 2 Sing to him, yes, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works. 3 Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice. 4 Seek you⌃ the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually. 5 Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; 6 [you⌃] seed of Abraam, his servants, [you⌃] children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 7 He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 8 He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation: 9 which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and [he remembered] his oath to Isaac. 10 And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant; 11 saying To you will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance: 12 when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it. 13 And they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people. 14 He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes: 15 [saying], Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm. 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread. 17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave. 18 They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron, 19 until the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire. 20 The king sent and loosed him; [even] the prince of the people, and let him go free. 21 He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance; 22 to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. 23 Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham. 24 And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies. 25 And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants. 26 He sent fort Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen. 27 He established among them his signs, and [his] wonders in the land of Cham. 28 He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. 30 Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings. 31 He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts. 32 He turned their rain into hail, [and sent] flaming fire in their land. 33 And he struck their vines and their fig trees; and broke every tree of their coast. 34 He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable, 35 and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground. 36 He struck also every firstborn of their land, the first fruits of all their labor. 37 And he brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes. 38 Egypt rejoiced at their departing; for the fear of them fell upon them. 39 He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night. 40 They asked, and the quail came, and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven. 41 He clave the rock, and the waters flowed, rivers ran in dry places. 42 For he remembered his holy word, which [he promised] to Abraam his servant. 43 And he brought out his people with exultation, and his chosen with joy; 44 and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labors of the people; 45 that they might keep his ordinances, and diligently seek his law. 105 1 (106) Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy [endures] for ever. 2 Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? [who] shall cause all his praises to be heard? 3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times. 4 Remember us, O Lord, with the favor [you have] to your people: visit us with your salvation; 5 that we may behold the good of your elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that we may glory with your inheritance. 6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously. 7 Our fathers in Egypt understood not your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of your mercy; but provoked [him] as they went up by the Red Sea. 8 Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might cause his mighty power to be known. 9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness. 10 And he saved them out of the hand of them that hated [them], and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. 11 The water covered those that oppressed them: there was not one of them left. 12 Then they believed his words, and celebrated his praise. 13 They made haste, they forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel. 14 And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the dry [land]. 15 And he gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls. 16 They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord. 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiron. 18 And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burnt up the sinners. 19 And they made a calf in Choreb, and worshipped the graven image, 20 and they changed their glory into the similitude of a calf that feeds on grass. 21 They forgot God that saved them, who had wrought great deeds in Egypt; 22 wondrous [works] in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea. 23 So he said that he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn [him] away from the fierceness of his anger, so that he should not destroy them. 24 Moreover they set at nothing the desirable land, and believed not his word. 25 And they murmured in their tents: they listened not to the voice of the Lord. 26 So he lifted up his hand against them, to cast them down in the wilderness; 27 and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries. 28 They were joined also to Beelphegor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked him with their devices; 29 and destruction, was multiplied among them. 30 Then Phinees stood up, and made atonement: and the plague ceased. 31 And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations for ever. 32 They provoked him also at the water of Strife, and Moses was hurt for their sakes; 33 for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke [unadvisedly] with his lips. 34 They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them [to destroy]; 35 but were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them. 37 And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils, 38 and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan; and the land was defiled with blood. 39 and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring with their own devices. 40 So the Lord was very angry with his people, and he abhorred his inheritance. 41 And he delivered them into the hands of [their] enemies; and they that hated them ruled over them. 42 Ands their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought down under their hands. 43 Many a time he delivered them; but they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities. 44 You⌃ the Lord looked upon their affliction, when he heard their petition. 45 And he remembered his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercy. 46 And he caused them to be pitied in the sight of all who carried them captive. 47 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, that we may give thanks to your holy name, that we may glory in your praise. 48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting; and all the people shall say, Amen, Amen. 106 1 (107) Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy [endures] for ever. 2 Let them say [so] who have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 3 and gathered them out of the countries, from the east, and west, and north, and south. 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he delivered them out of their distresses. 7 And he guided them into a straight path, that they might go to a city of habitation. 8 Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men. 9 For he satisfies the empty soul, and fills the hungry [soul] with good things, 10 [even] them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron; 11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and provoked the counsel of the Most High. 12 So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper. 13 Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder. 15 Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonders to the children of men. 16 For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars. 17 He helped them out of the way of their iniquity; for they were brought low because of their iniquities. 18 Their soul abhorred all meat; and they drew near to the gates of death. 19 Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them out of their distresses. 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them out of their destructions. 21 Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men. 22 And let them offer to him the sacrifice of praise, and proclaim this works with exultation. 23 They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in many waters; 24 these [men] have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. 25 He speaks, and the stormy wind arises, and its waves are lifted up. 26 They go up to the heavens, and go down to the depths; their soul melts because of troubles. 27 They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, and all their wisdom is swallowed up. 28 Then they cry to the Lord in their affliction, and he brings them out of their distresses. 29 And he commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, and its waves are still. 30 And they are glad, because they are quiet; and he guides them to their desire haven. 31 Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men. 32 Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. 33 He turns rivers into a desert, and streams of water into a dry land; 34 a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it. 35 He turns a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into streams of water. 36 And there he causes the hungry to dwell, and they establish for themselves cities of habitation. 37 And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and they yield fruit of increase. 38 And he blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, and he diminishes not the number of their cattle. 39 Again they become few, and are brought low, by the pressure of evils and pain. 40 Contempt is poured upon their princes, and he causes them to wander in a desert and trackless land. 41 But he helps the poor out of poverty, and makes [him] families as a flock. 42 The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 43 Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord? 107 1 (108) Song of a Psalm by David. O God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms with my glory. 2 Awake, lute and harp; I will awake early. 3 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to you among the Gentiles. 4 For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth [reaches] to the clouds. 5 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth. 6 That your beloved [ones] may be delivered, save with your right hand, and hear me. God has spoken in his sanctuary; 7 I will be exalted, and will divide Sicima, and will measure out the valley of tents. 8 Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of mine head; Judas is my king; 9 Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I cast my sandal; the Philistines are made subject to me. 10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea? 11 Will not you, O God, who have rejected us? and will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts? 12 Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we shall do valiantly; and he will bring to nothing our enemies. 108 1 (109) For the end, a Psalm of David. For the end, a Psalm of David. O God, pass not over my praise in silence; 2 for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty [man] have been opened against me: they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue. 3 And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. 4 Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray. 5 And they rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6 Set you a sinner against him; and let the devil stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him go forth condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few: and let another take his office of overseer. 9 Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations. 11 Let [his] creditor exact all that belongs to him: and let strangers spoil his labors. 12 Let him have no helper; neither let there be any one to have compassion on his fatherless children. 13 Let his children be [given up] to utter destruction: in one generation let his name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth. 16 Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, and [that] to kill him that was pricked in the heart. 17 He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. 18 Yes, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually. 20 This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul. 21 But you, O Lord, Lord, deal [mercifully] with me, for your name's sake: for your mercy is good. 22 Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me. 23 I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts. 24 My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of [the lack of] oil. 25 I became also a reproach to them: [when] they saw me they shook their heads. 26 Help me, O Lord my God; and save me according to your mercy. 27 And let them know that this is your hand; and [that] you, Lord, have wrought it. 28 Let them curse, but you shall bless: let them that rise up against me be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice. 29 Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. 30 I will give thanks to the Lord abundantly with my mouth; and in the midst of many I will praise him. 31 For he stood on the right hand of the poor, to save [me] from them that persecute my soul. 109 1 (110) A Psalm of David. The Lord said to my Lord, Sit you on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. 2 The Lord shall send out a rod of power for you out of Sion: rule you in the midst of your enemies. 3 With you is dominion in the day of your power, in the splendors of your saints: I have begotten you from the womb before the morning. 4 The Lord sware, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec. 5 The Lord at your right hand has dashed in pieces kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up [the number of] corpses, he shall crush the heads of many on the earth. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head. 110 1 (111) Alleluia. I will give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and [in] the congregation. 2 The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all his will. 3 His work is [worthy of] thanksgiving and honor: and his righteousness endures for ever and ever. 4 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is merciful and compassionate. 5 He has given food to them that fear him: he will remember his covenant for ever. 6 He has declared to his people the power of his works, to give them the inheritance of the heathen. 7 The works of his hands are truth and judgment: all his commandments are sure: 8 established for ever and ever, done in truth and uprightness. 9 He sent redemption to his people: he commanded his covenant for ever: holy and fearful is his name. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and all that act accordingly have a good understanding; his praise endures for ever and ever. 111 1 (112) Alleluia. Blessed is the man that fears the Lord: he will delight greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures for evermore. 4 To the upright light has sprung up in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous. 5 The good man is he that pities and lends: he will direct his affairs with judgment. 6 For he shall not be moved for ever; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 7 He shall not be afraid of [any] evil report: his heart is ready to trust in the Lord. 8 His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see [his desire] upon his enemies. 9 He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for evermore: his horn shall be exalted with honor. 10 The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the sinner shall perish. 112 1 (113) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, you⌃ servants [of his], praise, the name of the Lord. 2 Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever. 3 From the rising of the sun to his setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised. 4 The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens. 5 Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places, 6 and [yet] looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth: 7 who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill; 8 to set him with princes, [even] with the princes of his people: 9 who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children. 113 1 (114) Alleluia. At the going forth of Israel from Egypt, of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people, 2 Judea became his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion. 3 The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs. 5 What [ailed] you, O sea, that you fled? and you Jordan, that you were turned back? 6 [You⌃] mountains, that you⌃ skipped like rams, and [you⌃] hills, like lambs? 7 The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8 who turned the rock into pools of water, and the flint into fountains of water. 114 1 (115) Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, because of your mercy and your truth; 2 lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God? 3 But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatever he has pleased. 4 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. 5 They have a mouth, but they can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see: 6 they have ears, but they can’t hear; they have noses, but they can’t smell; 7 they have hands, but they can’t handle; they have feet, but they can’t walk: they can’t speak through their throat. 8 Let those that make them become like to them, and all who trust in them. 9 The house of Israel trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 10 The house of Aaron trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 11 They that fear the Lord trust in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 12 The Lord has remembered us, and blessed us: he has blessed the house of Israel, he has blessed the house of Aaron. 13 He has blessed them that fear the Lord, both small and great. 14 The Lord add [blessings] to you and to your children. 15 Blessed are you⌃ of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. 16 The heaven of heavens [belongs] to the Lord: but he has given the earth to the sons of men. 17 The dead shall not praise you, O Lord, nor any that go down to Hades. 18 But we, the living, will bless the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. 115 1 (116) Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will listen to the voice of my supplication. 2 Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live. 3 The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the name of the Lord: O Lord, deliver my soul. 5 The Lord is merciful and righteous; yes, our God has pity. 6 The Lord preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he delivered me. 7 Return to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. 8 For he has delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I shall be well-pleasing before the Lord in the land of the living. 10 (115) Alleluia. I believed, therefore I have spoken: but I was greatly afflicted. 11 And I said in mine amazement, Every man is a liar. 12 What shall I render to the Lord for all the things wherein he has rewarded me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. 14 I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people. 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. 16 O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have burst by bonds asunder. 17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord. 18 I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people, 19 in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. 116 1 (117) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, all you⌃ nations: praise him, all you⌃ peoples. 2 For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever. 117 1 (118) Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endures] for ever. 2 Let now the house of Israel say, that [he is] good: for his mercy [endures] for ever. 3 Let now the house of Aaron say, that [he is] good: for his mercy [endures] for ever. 4 Let now all that fear the Lord say, that [he is] good: for his mercy [endures] for ever. 5 I called on the Lord out of affliction: and he listened to me, [so as to bring me] into a wide place. 6 The Lord is my helper; and I will not fear what man shall do to me. 7 The Lord is my helper; and I shall see [my desire] upon mine enemies. 8 [It is] better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man. 9 [It is] better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes. 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them. 11 They completely compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them. 12 They compassed me about as bees [do] a honeycomb, and they burst into flame as fire among thorns: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them. 13 I was thrust, and sorely shaken, that I might fall: but the Lord helped me. 14 The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of exultation and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord has wrought mightily. 16 The right hand of the Lord has exalted me: the right hand of the Lord has wrought powerfully. 17 I shall not die, but live, and recount the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord has chastened me sore: but he has not given me up to death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter by it. 21 I will give thanks to you; because you have heard me, and are become my salvation. 22 The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. 23 This has been done of the Lord; and it is wonderful in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the Lord has made: let us exult and rejoice in it. 25 O Lord, save now: O Lord, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord, and he has shined upon us: celebrate the feast with thick [branches, binding the victims] even to the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God, and I will give you thanks: you are my God, and I will exalt you. I will give thanks to you, for you have heard me, and are become my salvation. 29 Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy [endures] for ever. 118 1 (119) Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart. 3 For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways. 4 You have commanded [us] diligently to keep your precepts. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep your ordinances. 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments. 7 I will give you thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learned the judgments of your righteousness. 8 I will keep your ordinances: O forsake me not greatly. 9 Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping your words. 10 With my whole heart have I diligently sought you: cast me not away from your commandments. 11 I have hidden your oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against you. 12 Blessed are you, O Lord: teach me your ordinances. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth. 14 I have delighted in the way of your testimonies, [as much] as in all riches. 15 I will meditate on your commandments, and consider your ways. 16 I will meditate on your ordinances: I will not forget your words. 17 Render a recompense to your servant: [so] shall I live, and keep your words. 18 Unveil you mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of your law. 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me. 20 My soul has longed exceedingly for your judgments at all times. 21 You have rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from your commandments. 22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out your testimonies. 23 For princes sat and spoke against me: but your servant was meditating on your ordinances. 24 For your testimonies are my meditation, and your ordinances are my counselors. 25 My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken you me according to your word. 26 I declared my ways, and you did hear me: teach me your ordinances. 27 Instruct me in the way of your ordinances; and I will meditate on your wondrous works. 28 My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen you me with your words. 29 Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by your law. 30 I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten your judgments. 31 I have cleaved to your testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame. 32 I ran the way of your commandments, when you did enlarge my heart. 33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your ordinances, and I will seek it out continually. 34 Instruct me, and I will search out your law, and will keep it with my whole heart. 35 Guide me in the path of your commandments; for I have delighted in it. 36 Incline mine heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness. 37 Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken you me in your way. 38 Confirm your oracle to your servant, that he may fear you. 39 Take away my reproach which I have feared: for your judgments are good. 40 Behold, I have desired your commandments: quicken me in your righteousness. 41 And let your mercy come upon me, O Lord; [even] your salvation, according to your word. 42 And [so] I shall render an answer to them that reproach me: for I have trusted in your words. 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments. So shall I keep your law continually, for ever and ever. 45 I walked also at large: for I sought out your commandments. 46 And I spoke of your testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed. 47 And I meditated on your commandments, which I loved exceedingly. 48 And I lifted up my hands to your commandments which I loved; and I meditated in your ordinances. 49 Remember your words to your servant, wherein you have made me hope. 50 This has comforted me in mine affliction: for your oracle has quickened me. 51 The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from your law. 52 I remembered your judgments of old, O Lord; and was comforted. 53 Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake your law. 54 Your ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning. 55 I remembered your name, O Lord, in the night, and kept your law. 56 This I had, because I diligently sought your ordinances. 57 You are my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep your law. 58 I implored your favor with my whole heart: have mercy upon me according to your word. 59 I thought on your ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies. 60 I prepared myself, (and was not terrified,) to keep your commandments. 61 The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not your law. 62 At midnight I arose, to give thanks to you for the judgments of your righteousness. 63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your commandments. 64 O Lord, the earth is full of your mercy: teach me your ordinances. 65 You have wrought kindly with your servant, o Lord, according to your word. 66 Teach me kindness, and instruction, and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. 67 Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept your word. 68 Good are you, O Lord; therefore in your goodness teach me your ordinances. 69 The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me: but I will search out your commandments with all my heart. 70 Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on your law. 71 [It is] good for me that you have afflicted me; that I might learn your ordinances. 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver. 73 Your hands have made me, and fashioned me: instruct me, that I may learn your commandments. 74 They that fear you will see me and rejoice: for I have hoped in your words. 75 I know, O Lord, that your judgments are righteousness, and [that] you in truthfulness have afflicted me. 76 Let, I pray you, your mercy be to comfort me, according to your word to your servant. 77 Let your compassions come to me, that I may live: for your law is my meditation. 78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in your commandments. 79 Let those that fear you, and those that know your testimonies, turn to me. 80 Let mine heart be blameless in your ordinances, that I may not be ashamed. 81 My soul faints for your salvation: I have hoped in your words. 82 Mine eyes failed [in waiting] for your word, saying, When will you comfort me? 83 For I am become as a bottle in the frost: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances. 84 How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment for me on them that persecute me? 85 Transgressors told me [idle tales]; but not according to your law, O Lord. 86 All your commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help you me. 87 They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not your commandments. 88 Quicken me according to your mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of your mouth. 89 Your word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever. 90 Your truth [endures] to all generations; you have founded the earth, and it abides. 91 The day continues by your arrangement; for all things are your servants. 92 Were it not that your law is my meditation, then I should have perished in mine affliction. 93 I will never forget your ordinances; for with them you have quickened me. 94 I am your, save me; for I have sought out your ordinances. 95 Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; [but] I understood your testimonies. 96 have seen an end of all perfection; [but] your commandment is very broad. 97 How I have loved your law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day. 98 You have made me wiser than mine enemies [in] your commandment; for it is mine for ever. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; for your testimonies are my medication. 100 I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out your commandments. 101 I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your words. 102 I have not declined from your judgments; for you have instructed me. 103 How sweet are your oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth! 104 I gain understanding by your commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness. 105 Your law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths. 106 I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of your righteousness. 107 I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to your word. 108 Accept, I pray you, O Lord, the free will offerings of my mouth, and teach me your judgments. 109 My soul is continually in your hands; and I have not forgotten your law. 110 Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from your commandments. 111 I have inherited your testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart. 112 I have inclined my heart to perform your ordinances for ever, in return [for your mercies]. 113 I have hated transgressors; but I have loved your law. 114 You are my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in your words. 115 Depart from me, you⌃ evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God. 116 Uphold me according to your word, and quicken me; and make me not ashamed of my expectation. 117 Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in your ordinances continually. 118 You have brought to nothing all that depart from your ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous. 119 I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved your testimonies. 120 Penetrate my flesh with your fear; for I am afraid of your judgments. 121 I have done judgment and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me. 122 Receive your servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely. 123 Mine eyes have failed for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness. 124 Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your ordinances. 125 I am your servant; instruct me, and I shall know your testimonies. 126 [It is] time for the Lord to work: they have utterly broken your law. 127 Therefore have I loved your commandments more than gold, or the topaz. 128 Therefore I directed myself [according] to all your commandments: I have hated every unjust way. 129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul has sought them out. 130 The manifestation of your words will enlighten, and instruct the simple. 131 I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after your commandments. 132 Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love your name. 133 Order my steps according to your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 134 Deliver me from the false accusation of men: so will I keep your commandments. 135 Cause your face to shine upon your servant: and teach me your ordinances. 136 Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not your law. 137 Righteous are you, O Lord, and upright are your judgments. 138 You has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, [as] your testimonies. 139 Your zeal has quite wasted me: because mine enemies have forgotten your words. 140 Your word [has been] very fully tried; and your servant loves it. 141 I am young and despised: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances. 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth. 143 Afflictions and distresses found me: [but] your commandments [were] my meditation. 144 Your testimonies [are] an everlasting righteousness: instruct me, and I shall live. 145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will search out your ordinances. 146 I cried to you; save me, and I will keep your testimonies. 147 I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in your words. 148 Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on your oracles. 149 Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your mercy; quicken me according to your judgment. 150 They have drawn near who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from your law. 151 You are near, O Lord; and all your ways are truth. 152 I have known of old concerning your testimonies, that you have founded them for ever. 153 Look upon mine affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten your law. 154 Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of your word. 155 Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out your ordinances. 156 Your mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to your judgment. 157 Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: [but] I have not declined from your testimonies. 158 I [*]saw men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not your oracles. 159 Behold, I have loved your commandments, O Lord: quicken me in your mercy. 160 The beginning of your words is truth; and all the judgments of your righteousness [endure] for ever. 161 Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of your words. 162 I will exult because of your oracles, as one that finds much spoil. 163 I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love your law. 164 Seven times in a day have I praised you because of the judgments of your righteousness. 165 Great peace have they that love your law: and there is no stumbling block to them. 166 I waited for your salvation, O Lord, and have loved your commandments. 167 My soul has kept your testimonies, and loved them exceedingly. 168 I have kept your commandments and your testimonies; for all my ways are before you, O Lord. 169 Let my supplication come near before you, o Lord; instruct me according to your oracle. 170 Let my petition come in before you, O Lord; deliver me according to your oracle. 171 Let my lips utter a hymn, when you shall have taught me your ordinances. 172 Let my tongue utter your oracles; for all your commandments are righteous. 173 Let your hand be [prompt] to save me; for I have chosen your commandments. 174 I have longed after your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my meditation. 175 My soul shall live, and shall praise you; and your judgments shall help me. 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I have not forgotten your commandments. 119 1 (120) A Song of Degrees. In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, and he listened to me. 2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What should be given to you, and what should be added to you, for [your] crafty tongue? 4 Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert. 5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar. 6 My soul has long been a sojourner; 7 I was peaceful among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.