Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/PS.LZH/PS

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1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
 wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not
 in the seat of scorners;
1:2 But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he
 meditate day and night.
1:3 And he [is] as a tree planted by brooks of water, which
 giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and
 all that he doeth prospereth.
1:4 The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind
 driveth away.
1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor
 sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
1:6 For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of
 the wicked shall perish.
2:1 Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and [why] do
 the peoples meditate a vain thing?
2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot
 together, against Jehovah and against his anointed:
2:3 Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords
 from us!
2:4 He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall
 have them in derision.
2:5 Then will he speak to them in his anger, and in his fierce
 displeasure will he terrify them:
2:6 And *I* have anointed my king upon Zion, the hill of my
 holiness.
2:7 I will declare the decree: Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou
 art my Son; *I* this day have begotten thee.
2:8 Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance,
 and for thy possession the ends of the earth:
2:9 Thou shalt break them with a sceptre of iron, as a potter's
 vessel thou shalt dash them in pieces.
2:10 And now, O kings, be ye wise, be admonished, ye judges of
 the earth.
2:11 Serve Jehovah with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way,
 though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have
 their trust in him.
3:1 <<A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>>
 Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise
 up against me!
3:2 Many say of my soul, There is no salvation for him in God.
 Selah.
3:3 But thou, Jehovah, art a shield about me; my glory, and the
 lifter up of my head.
3:4 With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me
 from the hill of his holiness. Selah.
3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for Jehovah sustaineth
 me.
3:6 I will not fear for myriads of the people that have set
 themselves against me round about.
3:7 Arise, Jehovah; save me, my God! For thou hast smitten all
 mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of
 the wicked.
3:8 Salvation is of Jehovah; thy blessing is upon thy people.
 Selah.
4:1 <<To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of
 David.>> When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness: in
 pressure thou hast enlarged me; be gracious unto me, and hear
 my prayer.
4:2 Ye sons of men, till when is my glory [to be put] to shame?
 [How long] will ye love vanity, will ye seek after a lie?
 Selah.
4:3 But know that Jehovah hath set apart the pious [man] for
 himself: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.
4:4 Be moved with anger, and sin not; meditate in your own
 hearts upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
4:5 Offer sacrifices of righteousness, and confide in Jehovah.
4:6 Many say, Who shall cause us to see good? Lift up upon us
 the light of thy countenance, O Jehovah.
4:7 Thou hast put joy in my heart, more than in the time that
 their corn and their new wine was in abundance.
4:8 In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; for thou,
 Jehovah, alone makest me to dwell in safety.
5:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.>>
 Give ear to my words, O Jehovah; consider my meditation.
5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my crying, my king and my God; for
 to thee will I pray.
5:3 Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; in the
 morning will I address myself to thee, and will look up.
5:4 For thou art not a ∙God that hath pleasure in wickedness;
 evil shall not sojourn with thee.
5:5 Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou
 hatest all workers of iniquity.
5:6 Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a
 man of blood and deceit.
5:7 But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will
 I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy
 holiness in thy fear.
5:8 Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes;
 make thy way plain before me.
5:9 For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part
 is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter
 with their tongue.
5:10 Bring guilt upon them, O God; let them fall by their own
 counsels: drive them out in the multitude of their
 transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.
5:11 And all that trust in thee shall rejoice: for ever shall
 they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that
 love thy name shall exult in thee.
5:12 For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous [man]; with
 favour wilt thou surround him as [with] a shield.
6:1 <<To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon
 Sheminith. A Psalm of David.>> Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine
 anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.
6:2 Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah,
 heal me, for my bones tremble.
6:3 And my soul trembleth exceedingly: and thou, Jehovah, till
 how long?
6:4 Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy
 loving-kindness' sake.
6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who
 shall give thanks unto thee?
6:6 I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed
 to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
6:7 Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old
 because of all mine oppressors.
6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Jehovah hath
 heard the voice of my weeping.
6:9 Jehovah hath heard my supplication; Jehovah receiveth my
 prayer.
6:10 All mine enemies shall be ashamed and tremble exceedingly;
 they will turn, they will be ashamed suddenly.
7:1 <<Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, concerning
 the words of Cush the Benjaminite.>> Jehovah my God, in thee
 have I trusted: save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me;
7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is
 no deliverer.
7:3 Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in
 my hands;
7:4 If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me;
 (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)
7:5 Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take [it], and let
 him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the
 dust. Selah.
7:6 Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the
 raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast
 commanded judgment.
7:7 And the assembly of the peoples shall encompass thee; and
 for their sakes return thou on high.
7:8 Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples. Judge me,
 Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine
 integrity which is in me.
7:9 Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish
 thou the righteous [man]; even thou that triest the hearts and
 reins, the righteous God.
7:10 My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.
7:11 God is a righteous judge, and a ∙God who is indignant all
 the day.
7:12 If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent
 his bow and made it ready,
7:13 And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his
 arrows hath he made burning.
7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived
 mischief, and brought forth falsehood:
7:15 He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into
 the hole that he made.
7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his
 violence shall come down upon his own pate.
7:17 I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and
 will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.
8:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.>>
 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
 who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.
8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou
 established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the
 enemy and the avenger.
8:3 When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon
 and stars, which thou hast established;
8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of
 man, that thou visitest him?
8:5 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
 crowned him with glory and splendour.
8:6 Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou
 hast put everything under his feet:
8:7 Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the
 field;
8:8 The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea,
 [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
8:9 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the
 earth!
9:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.>>
 I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all
 thy marvellous works.
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy
 name, O Most High.
9:3 When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at
 thy presence:
9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest
 on the throne, judging righteously.
9:5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the
 wicked; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
9:6 O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. -- Thou hast also
 destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.
9:7 But Jehovah sitteth for ever; he hath ordained his throne
 for judgment.
9:8 And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness;
 he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.
9:9 And Jehovah will be a refuge to the oppressed one, a refuge
 in times of distress.
9:10 And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou,
 Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
9:11 Sing psalms to Jehovah who dwelleth in Zion; tell among the
 peoples his doings.
9:12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth
 them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten.
9:13 Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction
 from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:
9:14 That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the
 daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation.
9:15 The nations are sunk down in the pit [that] they made; in
 the net that they hid is their own foot taken.
9:16 Jehovah is known [by] the judgment he hath executed: the
 wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion.
 Selah.
9:17 The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that
 forget God.
9:18 For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of
 the meek shall not perish for ever.
9:19 Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the nations be
 judged in thy sight.
9:20 Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know
 themselves to be but men. Selah.
10:1 Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou
 thyself in times of distress?
10:2 The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted.
 They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he
 blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.
10:4 The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance,
 He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!
10:5 His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of
 his sight; [as for] all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
10:6 He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from
 generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression;
 under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
10:8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the
 secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the
 wretched.
10:9 He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he
 lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the
 afflicted, drawing him into his net.
10:10 He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall
 by his strong ones.
10:11 He saith in his heart, ∙God hath forgotten, he hideth his
 face, he will never see [it].
10:12 Arise, Jehovah; O ∙God, lift up thy hand: forget not the
 afflicted.
10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his
 heart, Thou wilt not require [it].
10:14 Thou hast seen [it], for thou thyself beholdest trouble
 and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth
 himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man,
 seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.
10:16 Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have
 perished out of his land.
10:17 Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast
 established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,
10:18 To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one,
 that the man of the earth may terrify no more.
11:1 <<To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.>> In Jehovah
 have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to
 your mountain?
11:2 For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their
 arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the
 upright in heart.
11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous
 do?
11:4 Jehovah [is] in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah, -- his
 throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the
 children of men.
11:5 Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him
 that loveth violence, his soul hateth.
11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone;
 and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
11:7 For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his
 countenance doth behold the upright.
12:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.>>
 Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have
 failed from among the children of men.
12:2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with]
 flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
12:3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that
 speaketh proud things,
12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips
 are our own: who [is] lord over us?
12:5 Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the
 sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will
 set [him] in safety, at whom they puff.
12:6 The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the
 furnace of earth, purified seven times.
12:7 Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from
 this generation for ever.
12:8 The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is
 exalted among the children of men.
13:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> How long,
 Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide
 thy face from me?
13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my
 heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
13:3 Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes,
 lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! [lest]
 mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.
13:5 As for me, I have confided in thy loving-kindness; my heart
 shall be joyful in thy salvation.
13:6 I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath dealt bountifully
 with me.
14:1 <<To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.>> The fool hath
 said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted
 themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that
 doeth good.
14:2 Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of
 men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did
 seek God.
14:3 They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt:
 there is none that doeth good, not even one.
14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my
 people [as] they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.
14:5 There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation
 of the righteous.
14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because
 Jehovah [was] his refuge.
14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When
 Jehovah turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
 be glad, Israel shall rejoice.
15:1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent?
 who shall dwell in the hill of thy holiness?
15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
 speaketh the truth from his heart.
15:3 [He that] slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to
 his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;
15:4 In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who
 honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his
 own hurt, changeth it not;
15:5 [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh
 reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall
 never be moved.
16:1 <<Michtam of David.>> Preserve me, O ∙God: for I trust in
 thee.
16:2 Thou [my soul] hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my
 goodness [extendeth] not to thee; --
16:3 To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent
 [thou hast said], In them is all my delight.
16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after
 another: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, and I
 will not take up their names into my lips.
16:5 Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
 thou maintainest my lot.
16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I
 have a goodly heritage.
16:7 I will bless Jehovah, who giveth me counsel; even in the
 nights my reins instruct me.
16:8 I have set Jehovah continually before me; because [he is]
 at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
16:9 Therefore my heart rejoiceth, and my glory exulteth; my
 flesh moreover shall dwell in hope.
16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt
 thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.
16:11 Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy
 countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures
 for evermore.
17:1 <<A Prayer of David.>> Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto
 my cry; give ear unto my prayer, which is not out of feigned
 lips.
17:2 Let my judgment come forth from thy presence, let thine
 eyes regard equity.
17:3 Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night;
 thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth
 not beyond my word.
17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have
 kept from the paths of the violent [man].
17:5 When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip
 not.
17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou answerest me, O ∙God.
 Incline thine ear unto me, hear my speech.
17:7 Shew wondrously thy loving-kindnesses, O thou that savest
 by thy right hand them that trust [in thee] from those that
 rise up [against them].
17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow
 of thy wings,
17:9 From the wicked that destroy me, my deadly enemies, who
 compass me about.
17:10 They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they
 speak proudly.
17:11 They have now encompassed us in our steps; their eyes have
 they set, bowing down to the earth.
17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a
 young lion lurking in secret places.
17:13 Arise, Jehovah, anticipate him, cast him down: deliver my
 soul from the wicked, thy sword;
17:14 From men [who are] thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this
 age: their portion is in [this] life, and their belly thou
 fillest with thy hid [treasure]; they have their fill of sons,
 and leave the rest of their [substance] to their children.
17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I
 shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
18:1 <<To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David, the servant of
 Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day
 that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his
 enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,>> I will love
 thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
18:2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my
 ∙God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of
 my salvation, my high tower.
18:3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I
 be saved from mine enemies.
18:4 The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial
 made me afraid.
18:5 The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death
 encountered me.
18:6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my
 God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came
 before him, into his ears.
18:7 Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the
 mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth.
18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of
 his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.
18:9 And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was
 under his feet.
18:10 And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast
 upon the wings of the wind.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about
 him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed
 forth: hail and coals of fire.
18:13 And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High
 uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.
18:14 And he sent his arrows, and scattered [mine enemies]; and
 he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.
18:15 And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations
 of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the
 blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
18:16 He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of
 great waters:
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that
 hated me; for they were mightier than I.
18:18 They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah
 was my stay.
18:19 And he brought me forth into a large place; he delivered
 me, because he delighted in me.
18:20 Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness;
 according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
18:21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly
 departed from my God.
18:22 For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put
 away his statutes from me;
18:23 And I was upright with him, and kept myself from mine
 iniquity.
18:24 And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my
 righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
 sight.
18:25 With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with
 the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;
18:26 With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the
 perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
18:27 For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the
 haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.
18:28 For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my
 God enlighteneth my darkness.
18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have
 I leaped over a wall.
18:30 As for ∙God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is
 tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.
18:31 For who is +God save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not our
 God?
18:32 The ∙God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
 perfect,
18:33 Who maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon
 my high places;
18:34 Who teacheth my hands to war, and mine arms bend a bow of
 brass;
18:35 And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, and
 thy right hand held me up; and thy condescending gentleness
 hath made me great.
18:36 Thou didst enlarge my steps under me, and mine ankles have
 not wavered.
18:37 I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned
 not again till they were consumed.
18:38 I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell
 under my feet.
18:39 And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst
 subdue under me those that rose up against me.
18:40 And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto
 me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
18:41 They cried, and there was none to save; -- unto Jehovah,
 and he answered them not.
18:42 And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did
 cast them out as the mire of the streets.
18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;
 thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not
 doth serve me.
18:44 At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come
 cringing unto me.
18:45 Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth
 from their close places.
18:46 Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the
 God of my salvation,
18:47 The ∙God who hath avenged me, and hath subjected the
 peoples to me;
18:48 Who hath delivered me from mine enemies: yea, thou hast
 lifted me up above them that rose up against me; from the man
 of violence hast thou delivered me.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks to thee, Jehovah, among the
 nations, and will sing psalms to thy name.
18:50 [It is he] who giveth great deliverances to his king, and
 sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his
 seed for evermore.
19:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> The heavens
 declare the glory of ∙God; and the expanse sheweth the work of
 his hands.
19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
 knowledge.
19:3 There is no speech and there are no words, yet their voice
 is heard.
19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their
 language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a
 tent for the sun,
19:5 And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he
 rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.
19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his
 circuit unto the ends of it; and there is nothing hid from the
 heat thereof.
19:7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the
 testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple;
19:8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the
 commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;
19:9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the
 judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether:
19:10 They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine
 gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.
19:11 Moreover, by them is thy servant enlightened; in keeping
 them there is great reward.
19:12 Who understandeth [his] errors? Purify me from secret
 [faults].
19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]; let
 them not have dominion over me: then shall I be perfect, and I
 shall be innocent from great transgression.
19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
 be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my
 redeemer.
20:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> Jehovah answer
 thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob
 protect thee;
20:2 May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen
 thee out of Zion;
20:3 Remember all thine oblations, and accept thy
 burnt-offering; Selah.
20:4 Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy
 counsels.
20:5 We will triumph in thy salvation, and in the name of our
 God will we set up our banners. Jehovah fulfil all thy
 petitions!
20:6 Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; he answereth
 him from the heavens of his holiness, with the saving strength
 of his right hand.
20:7 Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we
 of the name of Jehovah our God.
20:8 They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand
 upright.
20:9 Save, Jehovah! Let the king answer us in the day we call.
21:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> The king shall
 joy in thy strength, Jehovah; and in thy salvation how greatly
 shall he rejoice.
21:2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not
 withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
21:3 For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou
 hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.
21:4 He asked life of thee; thou gavest [it] him, length of days
 for ever and ever.
21:5 His glory is great through thy salvation; majesty and
 splendour hast thou laid upon him.
21:6 For thou hast made him to be blessings for ever; thou hast
 filled him with joy by thy countenance.
21:7 For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the
 loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
21:8 Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand
 shall find out those that hate thee.
21:9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy
 presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, and the
 fire shall devour them:
21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their
 seed from among the children of men.
21:11 For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a
 mischievous device, which they could not execute.
21:12 For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make
 ready thy bowstring against their face.
21:13 Be thou exalted, Jehovah, in thine own strength: we will
 sing and celebrate thy power.
22:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of
 David.>> My ∙God, my ∙God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art
 thou] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?
22:2 My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night,
 and there is no rest for me:
22:3 And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of
 Israel.
22:4 Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst
 deliver them.
22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in
 thee, and were not confounded.
22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the
 despised of the people.
22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the
 lip, they shake the head, [saying:]
22:8 Commit it to Jehovah -- let him rescue him; let him deliver
 him, because he delighteth in him!
22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst
 make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.
22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my ∙God from
 my mother's belly.
22:11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none
 to help.
22:12 Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have
 beset me round.
22:13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a
 roaring lion.
22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of
 joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst
 of my bowels.
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue
 cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of
 death.
22:16 For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers
 have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;
22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
 vesture.
22:19 But thou, Jehovah, be not far [from me]; O my strength,
 haste thee to help me.
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power
 of the dog;
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the
 buffaloes hast thou answered me.
22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of
 the congregation will I praise thee.
22:23 Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of
 Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel.
22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of
 the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him: but when
 he cried unto him, he heard.
22:25 My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will
 pay my vows before them that fear him.
22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise
 Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto
 Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship
 before thee:
22:28 For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the
 nations.
22:29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all
 they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that
 cannot keep alive his own soul.
22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord
 for a generation.
22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto
 a people that shall be born, that he hath done [it].
23:1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not
 want.
23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me
 beside still waters.
23:3 He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in paths of
 righteousness for his name's sake.
23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
 death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and
 thy staff, they comfort me.
23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
 enemies; thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth
 over.
23:6 Surely, goodness and loving-kindness shall follow me all
 the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah
 for the length of the days.
24:1 <<Of David. A Psalm.>> The earth is Jehovah's, and the
 fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
24:2 For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it
 upon floods.
24:3 Who shall ascend into the mount of Jehovah? and who shall
 stand in his holy place?
24:4 He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth
 not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully:
24:5 He shall receive blessing from Jehovah, and righteousness
 from the God of his salvation.
24:6 This is the generation of them that seek unto him, that
 seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
24:7 Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye
 everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.
24:8 Who is this King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty,
 Jehovah mighty in battle.
24:9 Lift up your heads, ye gates; yea, lift up, ye everlasting
 doors, and the King of glory shall come in.
24:10 Who is he, this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, he is the
 King of glory. Selah.
25:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Unto thee, Jehovah, do I lift up my
 soul.
25:2 My God, I confide in thee; let me not be ashamed, let not
 mine enemies triumph over me.
25:3 Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be
 ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.
25:4 Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths.
25:5 Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art
 the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
25:6 Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy
 loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.
25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions;
 according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy
 goodness' sake, Jehovah.
25:8 Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore will he instruct
 sinners in the way:
25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he
 teach his way.
25:10 All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for
 such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
25:11 For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon
 mine iniquity; for it is great.
25:12 What man is he that feareth Jehovah? him will he instruct
 in the way [that] he should choose.
25:13 His soul shall dwell in prosperity, and his seed shall
 inherit the earth.
25:14 The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear him, that he
 may make known his covenant to them.
25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for he will bring my
 feet out of the net.
25:16 Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; for I am solitary
 and afflicted.
25:17 The troubles of my heart are increased: bring me out of my
 distresses;
25:18 Consider mine affliction and my travail, and forgive all
 my sins.
25:19 Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me
 [with] cruel hatred.
25:20 Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I
 trust in thee.
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on
 thee.
25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
26:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have
 walked in mine integrity, and I have confided in Jehovah: I
 shall not slip.
26:2 Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:
26:3 For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes, and I have
 walked in thy truth.
26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in
 with dissemblers;
26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not
 sat with the wicked.
26:6 I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine
 altar, O Jehovah,
26:7 That I may cause the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and
 declare all thy marvellous works.
26:8 Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the
 place where thy glory dwelleth.
26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of
 blood;
26:10 In whose hands are evil devices, and their right hand is
 full of bribes.
26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Redeem me,
 and be gracious unto me.
26:12 My foot standeth in an even place; in the congregations
 will I bless Jehovah.
27:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Jehovah is my light and my salvation;
 whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom
 shall I be afraid?
27:2 When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came
 upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
27:3 If a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; if
 war rise against me, in this will I be confident.
27:4 One [thing] have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek
 after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of
 my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire [of
 him] in his temple.
27:5 For in the day of evil he will hide me in his pavilion; in
 the secret of his tent will he keep me concealed: he will set
 me high upon a rock.
27:6 And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round
 about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices of shouts of
 joy: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms unto Jehovah.
27:7 Hear, Jehovah; with my voice do I call; be gracious unto
 me, and answer me.
27:8 My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O
 Jehovah, will I seek.
27:9 Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in
 anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake
 me, O God of my salvation.
27:10 For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had
 Jehovah taken me up.
27:11 Teach me thy way, Jehovah, and lead me in an even path,
 because of mine enemies.
27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for
 false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe
 out violence.
27:13 Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in
 the land of the living ...!
27:14 Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take
 courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.
28:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my
 rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence
 toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee,
 when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.
28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
 iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is
 in their heart.
28:4 Give them according to their doing, and according to the
 wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their
 hands, render to them their desert.
28:5 For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of
 his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.
28:6 Blessed be Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my
 supplications.
28:7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in
 him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my
 song will I praise him.
28:8 Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of
 salvation to his anointed one.
28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed
 them, and lift them up for ever.
29:1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the
 mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;
29:2 Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; worship Jehovah in
 holy splendour.
29:3 The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the ∙God of glory
 thundereth, -- Jehovah upon great waters.
29:4 The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is
 full of majesty.
29:5 The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh
 the cedars of Lebanon:
29:6 And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion
 like a young buffalo.
29:7 The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire.
29:8 The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah
 shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
29:9 The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, and layeth
 bare the forests; and in his temple doth every one say, Glory!
29:10 Jehovah sitteth upon the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth as
 king for ever.
29:11 Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will
 bless his people with peace.
30:1 <<A Psalm of David: dedication-song of the house.>> I will
 extol thee, Jehovah; for thou hast delivered me, and hast not
 made mine enemies to rejoice over me.
30:2 Jehovah my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
30:3 Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast
 quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.
30:4 Sing psalms unto Jehovah, ye saints of his, and give thanks
 in remembrance of his holiness.
30:5 For a moment [is passed] in his anger, a life in his
 favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there
 is rejoicing.
30:6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
30:7 Jehovah, by thy favour thou hadst made my mountain to stand
 strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
30:8 I called to thee, Jehovah, and unto the Lord did I make
 supplication:
30:9 What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the
 pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
30:10 Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious unto me; Jehovah, be my
 helper.
30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou
 hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
30:12 That [my] glory may sing psalms of thee, and not be
 silent. Jehovah my God, I will praise thee for ever.
31:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> In thee,
 Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy
 righteousness.
31:2 Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong
 rock to me, a house of defence to save me.
31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's
 sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.
31:4 Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for
 thou art my strength.
31:5 Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me,
 Jehovah, [thou] ∙God of truth.
31:6 I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for
 me, I have confided in Jehovah.
31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou
 hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my
 soul,
31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou
 hast set my feet in a large place.
31:9 Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye
 wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with
 sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my
 bones are wasted.
31:11 More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly
 a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine
 acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.
31:12 I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become
 like a broken vessel.
31:13 For I have heard the slander of many -- terror on every
 side -- when they take counsel together against me: they plot
 to take away my life.
31:14 But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.
31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
 enemies, and from my persecutors.
31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy
 loving-kindness.
31:17 Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon
 thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.
31:18 Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently
 against the righteous in pride and contempt.
31:19 [Oh] how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up
 for them that fear thee, [which] thou hast wrought for them
 that trust in thee, before the sons of men!
31:20 Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence
 from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion
 from the strife of tongues.
31:21 Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his
 loving-kindness in a strong city.
31:22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before
 thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my
 supplications when I cried unto thee.
31:23 Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the
 faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer.
31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that
 hope in Jehovah.
32:1 <<Of David. Instruction.>> Blessed is he [whose]
 transgression is forgiven, [whose] sin is covered!
32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah reckoneth not
 iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile!
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my
 groaning all the day long.
32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture
 was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I
 covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto
 Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a
 time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great
 waters they will not reach him.
32:7 Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from
 trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance.
 Selah.
32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee the way in which thou
 shalt go; I will counsel [thee] with mine eye upon thee.
32:9 Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no
 understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for
 restraint, or they will not come unto thee.
32:10 Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in
 Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.
32:11 Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout
 for joy, all ye upright in heart.
33:1 Exult, ye righteous, in Jehovah: praise is comely for the
 upright.
33:2 Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto
 him with the ten-stringed lute.
33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud sound.
33:4 For the word of Jehovah is right, and all his work is in
 faithfulness.
33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of
 the loving-kindness of Jehovah.
33:6 By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the
 host of them by the breath of his mouth.
33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; he
 layeth up the deeps in storehouses.
33:8 Let all the earth fear Jehovah; let all the inhabitants of
 the world stand in awe of him.
33:9 For *he* spoke, and it was [done]; *he* commanded, and it
 stood fast.
33:10 Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh
 the thoughts of the peoples of none effect.
33:11 The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of
 his heart from generation to generation.
33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people
 that he hath chosen for his inheritance!
33:13 Jehovah looketh from the heavens; he beholdeth all the
 sons of men:
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh forth upon all
 the inhabitants of the earth;
33:15 He who fashioneth the hearts of them all, who considereth
 all their works.
33:16 The king is not saved by the multitude of [his] forces; a
 mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
33:17 The horse is a vain thing for safety; neither doth he
 deliver by his great power.
33:18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him,
 upon them that hope in his loving-kindness,
33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive
 in famine.
33:20 Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our
 shield.
33:21 For in him shall our heart rejoice, because we have
 confided in his holy name.
33:22 Let thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, according
 as we have hoped in thee.
34:1 <<[A Psalm] of David; when he changed his behaviour before
 Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.>> I will bless
 Jehovah at all times; his praise shall continually be in my
 mouth.
34:2 My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah: the meek shall
 hear, and rejoice.
34:3 Magnify Jehovah with me, and let us exalt his name
 together.
34:4 I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, and delivered me from
 all my fears.
34:5 They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces
 were not confounded.
34:6 This afflicted one called, and Jehovah heard [him], and
 saved him out of all his troubles.
34:7 The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear
 him, and delivereth them.
34:8 Taste and see that Jehovah is good: blessed is the man that
 trusteth in him!
34:9 Fear Jehovah, ye his saints; for there is no want to them
 that fear him.
34:10 The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they
 that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.
34:11 Come, ye sons, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear
 of Jehovah.
34:12 What man is he that desireth life, [and] loveth days, that
 he may see good?
34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking
 guile;
34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
34:15 The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears
 are toward their cry;
34:16 The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, to cut
 off the remembrance of them from the earth:
34:17 [The righteous] cry, and Jehovah heareth, and delivereth
 them out of all their troubles.
34:18 Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and
 saveth them that are of a contrite spirit.
34:19 Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah
 delivereth him out of them all:
34:20 He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.
34:21 Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the
 righteous shall bear their guilt.
34:22 Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; and none of
 them that trust in him shall bear guilt.
35:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Strive, O Jehovah, with them that
 strive with me; fight against them that fight against me:
35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help;
35:3 And draw out the spear, and stop [the way] against my
 pursuers: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
35:4 Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my
 life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that
 devise my hurt:
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of
 Jehovah drive [them] away;
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of
 Jehovah pursue them.
35:7 For without cause have they hidden for me their net [in] a
 pit; without cause they have digged [it] for my soul.
35:8 Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net
 which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him
 fall therein.
35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in
 his salvation.
35:10 All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee,
 who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea,
 the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him!
35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge
 things which I know not.
35:12 They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereavement of my
 soul.
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was
 sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer
 returned into mine own bosom:
35:14 I behaved myself as though [he had been] a friend, a
 brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth
 [for] a mother.
35:15 But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together:
 the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I
 knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:
35:16 With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their
 teeth against me.
35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from
 their destructions, my only one from the young lions.
35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will
 praise thee among much people.
35:19 Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over
 me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause.
35:20 For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words
 against the quiet in the land.
35:21 And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said,
 Aha! aha! our eye hath seen [it].
35:22 Thou hast seen [it], Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be
 not far from me.
35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my
 God and Lord!
35:24 Judge me, Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness,
 and let them not rejoice over me.
35:25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it.
 Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
 rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and
 dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
35:27 Let them exult and rejoice that delight in my
 righteousness; and let them say continually, Jehovah be
 magnified, who delighteth in the prosperity of his servant.
35:28 And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness, [and] of
 thy praise, all the day.
36:1 <<To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the servant of
 Jehovah; of David.>> The transgression of the wicked uttereth
 within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.
36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, [even] when his
 iniquity is found to be hateful.
36:3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath
 left off to be wise, to do good.
36:4 He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in
 a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.
36:5 Jehovah, thy loving-kindness is in the heavens, and thy
 faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds.
36:6 Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments
 are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.
36:7 How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons of
 men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
 house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy
 pleasures.
36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall
 we see light.
36:10 Continue thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and
 thy righteousness to the upright in heart;
36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the
 hand of the wicked drive me away.
36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast
 down, and are not able to rise.
37:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Fret not thyself because of
 evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work
 unrighteousness;
37:2 for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as
 the green herb.
37:3 Confide in Jehovah, and do good; dwell in the land, and
 feed on faithfulness;
37:4 and delight thyself in Jehovah, and he will give thee the
 desires of thy heart.
37:5 Commit thy way unto Jehovah, and rely upon him: he will
 bring [it] to pass;
37:6 and he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and
 thy judgment as the noonday.
37:7 Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not
 thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of
 the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it
 [would be] only to do evil.
37:9 For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on
 Jehovah, they shall possess the land.
37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou
 considerest his place, but he is not.
37:11 But the meek shall possess the land, and shall delight
 themselves in the abundance of prosperity.
37:12 The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth
 his teeth against him.
37:13 The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is
 coming.
37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their
 bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that
 are upright in [the] way:
37:15 their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their
 bows shall be broken.
37:16 The little that the righteous hath is better than the
 abundance of many wicked;
37:17 for the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Jehovah
 upholdeth the righteous.
37:18 Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect; and their
 inheritance shall be for ever:
37:19 they shall not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the
 days of famine they shall be satisfied.
37:20 For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah
 shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke
 shall they consume away.
37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; but the
 righteous is gracious and giveth:
37:22 for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they
 that are cursed of him shall be cut off.
37:23 The steps of a man are established by Jehovah, and he
 delighteth in his way:
37:24 though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for
 Jehovah upholdeth his hand.
37:25 I have been young, and now am old, and I have not seen the
 righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread:
37:26 all the day he is gracious and lendeth, and his seed shall
 be a blessing.
37:27 Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore;
37:28 for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his
 saints: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked
 shall be cut off.
37:29 The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell therein
 for ever.
37:30 The mouth of the righteous proffereth wisdom, and his
 tongue speaketh judgment;
37:31 the law of his God is in his heart; his goings shall not
 slide.
37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay
 him:
37:33 Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him
 when he is judged.
37:34 Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee
 to possess the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt
 see [it].
37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like
 a green tree in its native soil:
37:36 but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought
 him, but he was not found.
37:37 Mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the end of
 [that] man is peace;
37:38 but the transgressors shall be destroyed together; the
 future of the wicked shall be cut off.
37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah: he is
 their strength in the time of trouble.
37:40 And Jehovah will help them and deliver them: he will
 deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in
 him.
38:1 <<A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.>> Jehovah,
 rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot
 displeasure.
38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down
 upon me.
38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine
 indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy
 burden they are too heavy for me.
38:5 My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my
 foolishness.
38:6 I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go
 mourning all the day.
38:7 For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness
 in my flesh.
38:8 I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of
 the agitation of my heart.
38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not
 hid from thee.
38:10 My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the
 light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
38:11 My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke;
 and my kinsmen stand afar off.
38:12 And they that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; and
 they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate
 deceits all the day long.
38:13 But I, as a deaf [man], hear not; and am as a dumb man
 that openeth not his mouth.
38:14 Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth
 are no reproofs.
38:15 For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: *thou* wilt answer, O
 Lord my God.
38:16 For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot
 slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me.
38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before
 me.
38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.
38:19 But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they
 that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:
38:20 And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto
 me; because I pursue what is good.
38:21 Forsake me not, Jehovah; O my God, be not far from me.
38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
39:1 <<To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.>> I
 said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
 tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is
 before me.
39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my
 sorrow was stirred.
39:3 My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my
 musing: I spoke with my tongue,
39:4 Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my
 days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my
 lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even]
 the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
39:6 Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are
 disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who
 shall gather them.
39:7 And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the
 reproach of the foolish.
39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for *thou* hast done
 [it].
39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow
 of thy hand.
39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity,
 thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely,
 every man is vanity. Selah.
39:12 Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not
 silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner,
 like all my fathers.
39:13 Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I
 go hence and be no more.
40:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.>> I waited
 patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my
 cry.
40:2 And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of
 the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established
 my goings:
40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our
 God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah.
40:4 Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence,
 and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to
 lies.
40:5 Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous
 works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up
 in order unto thee; would I declare and speak [them], they are
 more than can be numbered.
40:6 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast
 thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not
 demanded;
40:7 Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it
 is written of me --
40:8 To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law
 is within my heart.
40:9 I have published righteousness in the great congregation:
 behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, *thou* knowest.
40:10 I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I
 have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not
 concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great
 congregation.
40:11 Withhold not thou, Jehovah, thy tender mercies from me;
 let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine
 iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they
 are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed
 me.
40:13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; Jehovah, make haste
 to my help.
40:14 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
 seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward
 and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;
40:15 Let them be desolate, because of their shame, that say
 unto me, Aha! Aha!
40:16 Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee;
 let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be
 magnified!
40:17 But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me.
 Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.
41:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> Blessed is he
 that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the
 day of evil.
41:2 Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be
 made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the
 will of his enemies.
41:3 Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou
 turnest all his bed in his sickness.
41:4 As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my
 soul; for I have sinned against thee.
41:5 Mine enemies wish me evil: When will he die, and his name
 perish?
41:6 And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his
 heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he
 telleth [it].
41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do
 they devise my hurt.
41:8 A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he
 is laid down, he will rise up no more.
41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did
 eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
41:10 But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up,
 that I may requite them.
41:11 By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine
 enemy doth not triumph over me.
41:12 But as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and
 settest me before thy face for ever.
41:13 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from eternity to
 eternity! Amen, and Amen.
42:1 <<To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of
 Korah.>> As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth
 my soul after thee, O God.
42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living ∙God: when shall
 I come and appear before God?
42:3 My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say
 unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
42:4 These things I remember and have poured out my soul within
 me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with
 them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a
 festive multitude.
42:5 Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me?
 hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [for] the health of
 his countenance.
42:6 My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I
 remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons,
 from mount Mizar.
42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all
 thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
42:8 In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness,
 and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the
 ∙God of my life.
42:9 I will say unto ∙God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?
 why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
42:10 As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach
 me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
42:11 Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou
 disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him,
 [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly
 nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.
43:2 For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me
 off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the
 enemy?
43:3 Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me,
 *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy
 habitations.
43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the ∙God of the
 gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O
 God, my God.
43:5 Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou
 disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him,
 [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
44:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An
 instruction.>> O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers
 have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the
 days of old:
44:2 Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them
 thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them
 didst thou cause to spread out.
44:3 For not by their own sword did they take possession of the
 land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand,
 and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
 hadst delight in them.
44:4 Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for
 Jacob.
44:5 Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy
 name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
44:6 For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my
 sword save me.
44:7 For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put
 them to shame that hate us.
44:8 In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy
 name for ever. Selah.
44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost
 not go forth with our armies;
44:10 Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and
 they that hate us spoil for themselves;
44:11 Thou hast given us over like sheep [appointed] for meat,
 and hast scattered us among the nations;
44:12 Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not
 increased [thy wealth] by their price;
44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and
 a derision for them that are round about us;
44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of
 the head among the peoples.
44:15 All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my
 face hath covered me,
44:16 Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and
 blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.
44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
 neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:
44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps
 declined from thy path;
44:19 Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and
 covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20 If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out
 our hands to a strange ∙god,
44:21 Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets
 of the heart.
44:22 But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
 reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off
 for ever.
44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our
 affliction and our oppression?
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth
 unto the earth.
44:26 Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy
 loving-kindness' sake.
45:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of
 Korah. An instruction; -- a song of the Beloved.>> My heart is
 welling forth [with] a good matter: I say what I have composed
 touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
45:2 Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into
 thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
45:3 Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O mighty one, [in] thy
 majesty and thy splendour;
45:4 And [in] thy splendour ride prosperously, because of truth
 and meekness [and] righteousness: and thy right hand shall
 teach thee terrible things.
45:5 Thine arrows are sharp -- peoples fall under thee -- in the
 heart of the king's enemies.
45:6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of
 uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom:
45:7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness;
 therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
 gladness above thy companions.
45:8 Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory
 palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.
45:9 Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy
 right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
45:10 Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and
 forget thine own people and thy father's house:
45:11 And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord,
 and worship thou him.
45:12 And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich ones among
 the people, shall court thy favour.
45:13 All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing
 is of wrought gold:
45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of
 embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be
 brought in unto thee:
45:15 With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall
 enter into the king's palace.
45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt
 thou make them in all the earth.
45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered throughout all
 generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever
 and ever.
46:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A
 song.>> God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses,
 very readily found.
46:2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and
 though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;
46:3 Though the waters thereof roar [and] foam, though the
 mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4 There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of
 God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.
46:5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God
 shall help her at the dawn of the morning.
46:6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his
 voice, the earth melted.
46:7 Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high
 fortress. Selah.
46:8 Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath
 made in the earth:
46:9 He hath made wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he
 breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth
 the chariots in the fire.
46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among
 the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11 Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high
 fortress. Selah.
47:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.>> All
 ye peoples, clap your hands; shout unto God with the voice of
 triumph!
47:2 For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over
 all the earth.
47:3 He subdueth the peoples under us, and the nations under our
 feet.
47:4 He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of
 Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
47:5 God is gone up amid shouting, Jehovah amid the sound of the
 trumpet.
47:6 Sing psalms of God, sing psalms; sing psalms unto our King,
 sing psalms!
47:7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with
 understanding.
47:8 God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon the throne
 of his holiness.
47:9 The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together,
 [with] the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God [belong]
 the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted.
48:1 <<A Song; a Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.>> Great is Jehovah,
 and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the hill
 of his holiness.
48:2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is
 mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great
 King.
48:3 God is known in her palaces as a high fortress.
48:4 For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by
 together;
48:5 They saw, -- so they marvelled; they were troubled, they
 fled in consternation:
48:6 Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman
 in travail.
48:7 With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.
48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of Jehovah
 of hosts, in the city of our God: God doth establish it for
 ever. Selah.
48:9 We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the
 midst of thy temple.
48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the
 ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be
 glad, because of thy judgments.
48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers
 thereof;
48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye
 may tell it to the generation following.
48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our
 guide until death.
49:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.>>
 Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the
 world:
49:2 Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor
 alike.
49:3 My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart
 shall be of understanding:
49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle
 upon the harp.
49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of adversity, [when]
 the iniquity of my supplanters encompasseth me? --
49:6 They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the
 abundance of their riches. ...
49:7 None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a
 ransom for him,
49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be
 given up for ever,)
49:9 That he should still live perpetually, [and] not see
 corruption.
49:10 For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and
 the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
49:11 Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,
 their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call
 the lands after their own names.
49:12 Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like
 the beasts that perish.
49:13 This their way is their folly, yet they that come after
 them delight in their sayings. Selah.
49:14 Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them;
 and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
 and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there
 be no habitation for them.
49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for
 he will receive me. Selah.
49:16 Be not afraid when a man becometh rich, when the glory of
 his house is increased:
49:17 For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory
 shall not descend after him.
49:18 Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, -- and men
 will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, --
49:19 It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall
 never see light.
49:20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
 beasts that perish.
50:1 <<A Psalm. Of Asaph.>> ∙God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and
 called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
 thereof.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined
 forth.
50:3 Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall
 devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about
 him.
50:4 He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,
 that he may judge his people:
50:5 Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a
 covenant with me by sacrifice!
50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God
 executeth judgment himself. Selah.
50:7 Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
 testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy
 burnt-offerings, continually before me;
50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out
 of thy folds:
50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a
 thousand hills;
50:11 I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming
 creatures of the field are mine:
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is
 mine, and the fulness thereof.
50:13 Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of
 goats?
50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the
 Most High;
50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver
 thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to
 declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant
 into thy mouth,
50:17 Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words
 behind thee?
50:18 When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him,
 and thy portion was with adulterers;
50:19 Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue
 frameth deceit;
50:20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou
 revilest thine own mother's son:
50:21 These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
 thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will
 reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in
 pieces, and there be no deliverer.
50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that
 ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.
51:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the
 prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.>> Be
 gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness;
 according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my
 transgressions.
51:2 Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my
 sin.
51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is
 continually before me.
51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is
 evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou
 speakest, be clear when thou judgest.
51:5 Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my
 mother conceive me.
51:6 Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in
 the hidden [part] thou wilt make me to know wisdom.
51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I
 shall be whiter than snow.
51:8 Make me to hear gladness and joy; [that] the bones which
 thou hast broken may rejoice.
51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine
 iniquities.
51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast
 spirit within me.
51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not the
 spirit of thy holiness from me.
51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a
 willing spirit sustain me.
51:13 I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall
 return unto thee.
51:14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my
 salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
51:15 Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:
 thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a
 contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of
 Jerusalem.
51:19 Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness,
 burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer
 up bullocks upon thine altar.
52:1 <<To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg
 the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came
 to the house of Ahimelech.>> Why boastest thou thyself in evil,
 thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of ∙God [abideth]
 continually.
52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor,
 practising deceit.
52:3 Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to
 speak righteousness. Selah.
52:4 Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
52:5 ∙God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take
 thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out
 of the land of the living. Selah.
52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at
 him, [saying,]
52:7 Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put
 confidence in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened
 himself in his avarice.
52:8 But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of
 God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and
 ever.
52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it];
 and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is
 good.
53:1 <<To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of
 David.>> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They
 have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity:
 there is none that doeth good.
53:2 God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men,
 to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek
 God.
53:3 Every one of them is gone back, they are together become
 corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my
 people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God.
53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God
 scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou
 hast put [them] to shame, for God hath despised them.
53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When
 God turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be
 glad, Israel shall rejoice.
54:1 <<To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an
 instruction. Of David; when the Ziphites came, and said to
 Saul, Is not David hiding himself with us?>> O God, by thy name
 save me, and by thy strength do me justice.
54:2 O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.
54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek
 after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.
54:4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that
 uphold my soul.
54:5 He will requite evil to mine enemies: in thy truth cut them
 off.
54:6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee; I will praise thy name,
 O Jehovah, because it is good.
54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; and mine eye
 hath seen [its desire] upon mine enemies.
55:1 <<To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an
 instruction. Of David.>> Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide
 not thyself from my supplication.
55:2 Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint,
 and I moan aloud,
55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the
 oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and
 in anger they persecute me.
55:4 My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death
 are fallen upon me.
55:5 Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
 overwhelmed me.
55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly
 away, and be at rest;
55:7 Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the
 wilderness; Selah;
55:8 I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the
 tempest.
55:9 Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have
 seen violence and strife in the city.
55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and
 iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.
55:11 Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and
 deceit depart not from its streets.
55:12 For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me -- then
 could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that
 hath magnified [himself] against me -- then would I have hidden
 myself from him;
55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my
 familiar friend. ...
55:14 We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of
 God we walked amid the throng.
55:15 Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into
 Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.
55:16 As for me, unto God will I call; and Jehovah will save me.
55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan
 aloud; and he will hear my voice.
55:18 He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against
 me: for there were many about me.
55:19 ∙God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of
 old, (Selah) ... because there is no change in them, and they
 fear not God.
55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace
 with him; he hath profaned his covenant.
55:21 Smooth were the milky [words] of his mouth, but his heart
 was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn
 swords.
55:22 Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and *he* will sustain thee:
 he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
55:23 And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of
 destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
 their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
56:1 <<To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David.
 Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.>> Be gracious
 unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long
 fighting he oppresseth me.
56:2 Mine enemies would swallow [me] up all the day long; for
 they are many that fight against me haughtily.
56:3 In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee.
56:4 In God will I praise his word, in God I put my confidence:
 I will not fear; what can flesh do unto me?
56:5 All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts
 are against me for evil.
56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they
 mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.
56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the
 peoples, O God.
56:8 *Thou* countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy
 bottle: are they not in thy book?
56:9 Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I
 call: this I know, for God is for me.
56:10 In God will I praise [his] word; in Jehovah will I praise
 [his] word.
56:11 In God have I put my confidence: I will not fear; what can
 man do unto me?
56:12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thanks unto
 thee.
56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death; [wilt thou]
 not [keep] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in
 the light of the living?
57:1 <<To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam;
 when he fled from Saul in the cave.>> Be gracious unto me, O
 God, be gracious unto me; for my soul taketh refuge in thee:
 yea, in the shadow of thy wings do I take refuge, until the
 calamities be overpast.
57:2 I will call unto God, the Most High; unto ∙God that
 performeth [all] for me.
57:3 He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered
 with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath
 sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.
57:4 My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [among] them
 that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are
 spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
57:5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let thy glory be above
 all the earth!
57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed
 down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into
 the midst thereof. Selah.
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing,
 yea, I will sing psalms.
57:8 Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will wake the
 dawn.
57:9 I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Lord; of thee
 will I sing psalms among the nations:
57:10 For thy loving-kindness is great unto the heavens, and thy
 truth unto the clouds.
57:11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let thy glory be
 above all the earth!
58:1 <<To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.>>
 Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge
 with equity, ye sons of men?
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence
 of your hands in the earth.
58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as
 they are born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are]
 like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
58:5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one
 charming ever so wisely.
58:6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the
 great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
58:7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth
 his arrows, let them be as blunted:
58:8 Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away;
 [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.
58:9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, -- they
 shall be whirled away.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance;
 he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
58:11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the
 righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
59:1 <<To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam;
 when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.>>
 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from
 them that rise up against me.
59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from
 men of blood.
59:3 For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are
 gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin,
 O Jehovah.
59:4 They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake
 to meet me, and behold.
59:5 Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel,
 arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters
 of iniquity. Selah.
59:6 They return in the evening; they howl like a dog, and go
 round about the city:
59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in
 their lips: for who [say they] doth hear?
59:8 But thou, Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt have all
 the nations in derision.
59:9 Their strength! ... I will take heed to thee; for God is my
 high fortress.
59:10 God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me, -- God
 shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.
59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make
 them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
59:12 [Because of] the sin of their mouth, the word of their
 lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and because of
 cursing and lying which they speak.
59:13 Make an end in wrath, make an end, that they may be no
 more; that they may know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the
 ends of the earth. Selah.
59:14 And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like
 a dog, and go round about the city.
59:15 They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if
 they be not satisfied.
59:16 But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will
 sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast
 been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my
 trouble.
59:17 Unto thee, my strength, will I sing psalms; for God is my
 high fortress, the God of my mercy.
60:1 <<To the chief Musician. On Shushan. Testimony. Michtam of
 David; to teach: when he strove with the Syrians of
 Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zobah, and Joab returned, and
 smote the Edomites in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.>> O
 God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast
 been displeased: restore us again.
60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast rent it:
 heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
60:3 Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us
 to drink the wine of bewilderment.
60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it
 may be displayed because of the truth, (Selah,)
60:5 That thy beloved ones may be delivered. Save with thy right
 hand, and answer me.
60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will
 divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the
 strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
60:8 Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal;
 Philistia, shout aloud because of me.
60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me
 unto Edom?
60:10 [Wilt] not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst
 not go forth, O God, with our armies?
60:11 Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will
 tread down our adversaries.
61:1 <<To the chief Musician. On a stringed instrument. [A Psalm]
 of David.>> Hear, O God, my cry; attend unto my prayer.
61:2 From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my
 heart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is
 too high for me.
61:3 For thou hast been a refuge for me, a strong tower from
 before the enemy.
61:4 I will sojourn in thy tent for ever; I will take refuge in
 the covert of thy wings. Selah.
61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows; thou hast given [me]
 the inheritance of those that fear thy name.
61:6 Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years shall
 be as many generations.
61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: bestow loving-kindness
 and truth, that they may preserve him.
61:8 So will I sing forth thy name for ever, performing my vows
 from day to day.
62:1 <<To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.>>
 Upon God alone doth my soul rest peacefully; from him is my
 salvation.
62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I
 shall not be greatly moved.
62:3 How long will ye assail a man; will ye [seek], all of you,
 to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?
62:4 They only consult to thrust [him] down from his excellency;
 they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but in their
 inward part they curse. Selah.
62:5 Upon God alone, O my soul, rest peacefully; for my
 expectation is from him.
62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I
 shall not be moved.
62:7 With God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my
 strength, my refuge is in God.
62:8 Confide in him at all times, ye people; pour out your heart
 before him: God is our refuge. Selah.
62:9 Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a
 lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than
 vanity.
62:10 Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in
 robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
62:11 Once hath God spoken, twice have I heard this, that
 strength [belongeth] unto God.
62:12 And unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] loving-kindness; for
 *thou* renderest to every man according to his work.
63:1 <<A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.>>
 O God, thou art my ∙God; early will I seek thee. My soul
 thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and
 weary land without water:
63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in
 the sanctuary;
63:3 For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall
 praise thee.
63:4 So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands
 in thy name.
63:5 My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my
 mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips.
63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the
 night-watches:
63:7 For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings
 will I sing for joy.
63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth
 me.
63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into
 the lower parts of the earth;
63:10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they
 shall be the portion of foxes.
63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth
 by him shall glory: for the mouth of them that speak lies shall
 be stopped.
64:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> Hear, O God, my
 voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:
64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the
 tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,
64:3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have
 aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do
 they shoot at him, and fear not.
64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert
 to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?
64:6 They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is
 diligently sought out. And each one's inward [thought] and
 heart is deep.
64:7 But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they
 wounded;
64:8 By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another:
 all that see them shall flee away.
64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing; and
 they shall wisely consider his work.
64:10 The righteous shall rejoice in Jehovah, and trust in him;
 and all the upright in heart shall glory.
65:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David: a Song.>> Praise
 waiteth for thee in silence, O God, in Zion; and unto thee
 shall the vow be performed.
65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions,
 thou wilt forgive them.
65:4 Blessed is he whom thou choosest and causest to approach:
 he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the
 goodness of thy house, of thy holy temple.
65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O
 God of our salvation, thou confidence of all the ends of the
 earth, and of the distant regions of the sea. ...
65:6 Who by his strength established the mountains, being girded
 with power;
65:7 Who stilleth the raging of the seas, the raging of their
 waves, and the tumult of the peoples.
65:8 And they that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at
 thy tokens; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and
 evening to rejoice.
65:9 Thou hast visited the earth, thou hast watered it; thou
 greatly enrichest it: the river of God is full of water; thou
 providest their corn, when thou hast so prepared it:
65:10 Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods,
 thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing
 thereof.
65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths
 drop fatness:
65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the
 hills are girded with gladness.
65:13 The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are
 covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.
66:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Song: a Psalm.>> Shout aloud unto
 God, all the earth:
66:2 Sing forth the glory of his name, make his praise glorious;
66:3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! because of the
 greatness of thy strength, thine enemies come cringing unto
 thee.
66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and sing psalms unto
 thee: they shall sing forth thy name. Selah.
66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in [his]
 doings toward the children of men.
66:6 He turned the sea into dry [land]; they went through the
 river on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes observe the
 nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
66:8 Bless our God, ye peoples, and make the voice of his praise
 to be heard;
66:9 Who hath set our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet
 to be moved.
66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as
 silver is tried.
66:11 Thou broughtest us into a net, thou didst lay a heavy
 burden upon our loins;
66:12 Thou didst cause men to ride over our head; we went
 through fire and through water: but thou hast brought us out
 into abundance.
66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will
 perform my vows to thee,
66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when
 I was in trouble.
66:15 I will offer up unto thee burnt-offerings of fatted
 beasts, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with
 goats. Selah.
66:16 Come, hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what
 he hath done for my soul.
66:17 I called unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with
 my tongue.
66:18 Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not
 hear.
66:19 But God hath heard; he hath attended to the voice of my
 prayer.
66:20 Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor
 his loving-kindness from me!
67:1 <<To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm: a
 Song.>> God be gracious unto us, and bless us, [and] cause his
 face to shine upon us; Selah,
67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy salvation among
 all nations.
67:3 Let the peoples praise thee, O God, let all the peoples
 praise thee.
67:4 Let the nations rejoice and sing for joy: for thou wilt
 judge the peoples equitably; and the nations upon earth, thou
 wilt guide them. Selah.
67:5 Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples
 praise thee.
67:6 The earth will yield her increase; God, our God, will bless
 us:
67:7 God will bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear
 him.
68:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm: a Song.>> Let God
 arise, let his enemies be scattered, and let them that hate him
 flee before him.
68:2 As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax
 melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the
 presence of God.
68:3 But the righteous shall rejoice: they shall exult before
 God and be glad with joy.
68:4 Sing unto God, sing forth his name; cast up a way for him
 that rideth in the deserts: his name is Jah; and rejoice before
 him.
68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is
 God in his holy habitation.
68:6 God maketh the solitary into families; those that were
 bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell
 in a parched [land].
68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
 didst march through the wilderness -- (Selah) --
68:8 The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the
 presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of
 Israel.
68:9 Thou, O God, didst pour a plentiful rain upon thine
 inheritance, and when it was weary thou strengthenedst it.
68:10 Thy flock hath dwelt therein: thou hast prepared in thy
 goodness, for the afflicted, O God!
68:11 The Lord gives the word: great the host of the publishers.
68:12 Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at
 home divideth the spoil.
68:13 Though ye have lain among the sheepfolds, [ye shall be as]
 wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with
 green gold.
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it became
 snow-white as Zalmon.
68:15 [As] mount Bashan is the mount of God, a many-peaked
 mountain, [as] mount Bashan.
68:16 Why do ye look with envy, ye many-peaked mountains, upon
 the mount that God hath desired for his abode? yea, Jehovah
 will dwell [there] for ever.
68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon
 thousands; the Lord is among them: it is a Sinai in holiness.
68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity
 captive: thou hast received gifts in Man, and even [for] the
 rebellious, for the dwelling [there] of Jah Elohim.
68:19 Blessed be the Lord: day by day doth he load us [with
 good], the ∙God who is our salvation. Selah.
68:20 Our ∙God is the ∙God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the
 Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.
68:21 Verily God will smite the head of his enemies, the hairy
 scalp of him that goeth on still in his trespasses.
68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will
 bring [them] again from the depth of the sea;
68:23 That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy
 dogs has its portion from enemies.
68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my ∙God,
 my King, in the sanctuary.
68:25 The singers went before, the players on stringed
 instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.
68:26 In the congregations bless ye God, the Lord, -- [ye] from
 the fountain of Israel.
68:27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler; the princes of
 Judah, their company; the princes of Zebulun, the princes of
 Naphtali.
68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God,
 that which thou hast wrought for us.
68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring
 presents unto thee.
68:30 Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the assembly of the strong,
 with the calves of the peoples: [every one] submitteth himself
 with pieces of silver. Scatter the peoples that delight in war.
68:31 Great ones shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall quickly
 stretch out her hands unto God.
68:32 Ye kingdoms of the earth, sing unto God; sing psalms of
 the Lord, (Selah,)
68:33 Of him that rideth upon the heavens, the heavens which are
 of old: lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice.
68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over
 Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
68:35 Terrible art thou, O God, out of thy sanctuaries, -- the
 ∙God of Israel! He it is that giveth strength and might unto
 the people. Blessed be God!
69:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of
 David.>> Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my]
 soul.
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come
 into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
69:3 I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes
 fail while I wait for my God.
69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs
 of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies
 wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not
 away.
69:5 Thou, O God, knowest my foolishness, and my trespasses are
 not hidden from thee.
69:6 Let not them that wait on thee, Lord, Jehovah of hosts, be
 ashamed through me; let not those that seek thee be confounded
 through me, O God of Israel.
69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath
 covered my face.
69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto
 my mother's sons;
69:9 For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the
 reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.
69:10 And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my
 reproach; --
69:11 And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb
 to them.
69:12 They that sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song
 of the drunkards.
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, Jehovah, in an
 acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy loving-kindness
 answer me, according to the truth of thy salvation:
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be
 delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of
 waters.
69:15 Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the
 deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
69:16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy loving-kindness is good:
 according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, turn toward
 me;
69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in
 trouble: answer me speedily.
69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer; ransom me because
 of mine enemies.
69:19 *Thou* knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my
 dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I
 looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters,
 but I found none.
69:21 Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they
 gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them, and their very
 welfare a trap;
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make
 their loins continually to shake.
69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the
 fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller
 in their tents.
69:26 For they persecute him whom *thou* hast smitten, and they
 talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come
 into thy righteousness.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be
 written with the righteous.
69:29 But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O
 God, set me secure on high.
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will
 magnify him with thanksgiving;
69:31 And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox, -- a bullock
 with horns and cloven hoofs.
69:32 The meek shall see it, they shall be glad; ye that seek
 God, your heart shall live.
69:33 For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his
 prisoners.
69:34 Let heavens and earth praise him; the seas, and everything
 that moveth therein.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of
 Judah; and they shall dwell there, and possess it:
69:36 And the seed of his servants shall inherit it, and they
 that love his name shall dwell therein.
70:1 <<To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David: to bring to
 remembrance.>> Make haste, O God, to deliver me; Jehovah,
 [hasten] to my help.
70:2 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek
 after my soul; let them be turned backward and confounded that
 take pleasure in mine adversity;
70:3 Let them turn back because of their shame that say, Aha!
 Aha!
70:4 Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee,
 and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be
 magnified!
70:5 But I am afflicted and needy: make haste unto me, O God.
 Thou art my help and my deliverer: O Jehovah, make no delay.
71:1 In thee, Jehovah, do I trust: let me never be ashamed.
71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline
 thine ear unto me, and save me.
71:3 Be to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually
 resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my
 rock and my fortress.
71:4 My God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the
 hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my
 youth.
71:6 On thee have I been stayed from the womb; from the bowels
 of my mother thou didst draw me forth: my praise shall be
 continually of thee.
71:7 I have been as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong
 refuge.
71:8 My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, with thy glory,
 all the day.
71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when
 my strength faileth.
71:10 For mine enemies speak against me, and they that watch for
 my soul consult together,
71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for
 there is none to deliver.
71:12 O God, be not far from me; my God, hasten to my help.
71:13 Let them be ashamed, let them be consumed, that are
 adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and
 dishonour that seek my hurt.
71:14 But as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise
 thee yet more and more.
71:15 My mouth shall declare thy righteousness, [and] thy
 salvation all the day: for I know not the numbers [thereof].
71:16 I will go in the might of the Lord Jehovah; I will recall
 thy righteousness, thine alone.
71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and hitherto
 have I proclaimed thy marvellous works:
71:18 Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me
 not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto [this] generation,
 thy might to every one that is to come.
71:19 And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who
 hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee?
71:20 Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt
 revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of
 the earth;
71:21 Thou wilt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every
 side.
71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth,
 my God; unto thee will I sing psalms with the harp, thou holy
 One of Israel.
71:23 My lips shall exult when I sing psalms unto thee; and my
 soul, which thou hast redeemed.
71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the
 day; for they shall be ashamed, for they shall be brought to
 confusion, that seek my hurt.
72:1 <<For Solomon.>> O God, give the king thy judgments, and thy
 righteousness unto the king's son.
72:2 He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thine
 afflicted with judgment.
72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the
 hills, by righteousness.
72:4 He will do justice to the afflicted of the people; he will
 save the children of the needy, and will break in pieces the
 oppressor.
72:5 They shall fear thee as long as sun and moon endure, from
 generation to generation.
72:6 He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers
 that water the earth.
72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of
 peace till the moon be no more.
72:8 And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the
 river unto the ends of the earth.
72:9 The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his
 enemies shall lick the dust.
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render
 presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer tribute:
72:11 Yea, all kings shall bow down before him; all nations
 shall serve him.
72:12 For he will deliver the needy who crieth, and the
 afflicted, who hath no helper;
72:13 He will have compassion on the poor and needy, and will
 save the souls of the needy:
72:14 He will redeem their souls from oppression and violence,
 and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
72:15 And he shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold
 of Sheba; and prayer shall be made for him continually: all the
 day shall he be blessed.
72:16 There shall be abundance of corn in the earth, upon the
 top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like
 Lebanon; and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the
 earth.
72:17 His name shall endure for ever; his name shall be
 continued as long as the sun: and [men] shall bless themselves
 in him; all nations shall call him blessed.
72:18 Blessed be Jehovah Elohim, the God of Israel, who alone
 doeth wondrous things!
72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever! and let the
 whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen, and Amen.
72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
73:1 <<A Psalm of Asaph.>> Truly God is good to Israel, to such as
 are of a pure heart.
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well
 nigh slipped;
73:3 For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of
 the wicked.
73:4 For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is
 well nourished;
73:5 They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they
 plagued like [other] men:
73:6 Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence
 covereth them [as] a garment;
73:7 Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the
 imaginations of their heart:
73:8 They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak
 loftily:
73:9 They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue
 walketh through the earth.
73:10 Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness
 are wrung out to them.
73:11 And they say, How can ∙God know, and is there knowledge in
 the Most High?
73:12 Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the
 world: they heap up riches.
73:13 Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my
 hands in innocency:
73:14 For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every
 morning.
73:15 If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be
 faithless to the generation of thy children.
73:16 When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous
 task in mine eyes;
73:17 Until I went into the sanctuaries of ∙God; [then]
 understood I their end.
73:18 Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest
 them down in ruins.
73:19 How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away,
 consumed with terrors.
73:20 As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising
 despise their image.
73:21 When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my
 reins,
73:22 Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was [as] a beast
 with thee.
73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden
 my right hand;
73:24 Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and after the glory,
 thou wilt receive me.
73:25 Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I
 desire beside thee.
73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart
 and my portion for ever.
73:27 For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou
 destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.
73:28 But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: I
 have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all
 thy works.
74:1 <<An instruction: of Asaph.>> Why, O God, hast thou cast off
 for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy
 pasture?
74:2 Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old,
 which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine
 inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
74:3 Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations:
 everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
74:4 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of
 assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
74:5 [A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket
 of trees;
74:6 And now they break down its carved work altogether, with
 hatchets and hammers.
74:7 They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the
 habitation of thy name to the ground.
74:8 They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together:
 they have burned up all ∙God's places of assembly in the land.
74:9 We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither
 is there among us any that knoweth how long.
74:10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the
 enemy contemn thy name for ever?
74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck
 it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
74:12 But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in
 the midst of the earth.
74:13 *Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst
 break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
74:14 *Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou
 gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
74:15 *Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst
 up ever-flowing rivers.
74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast
 prepared the moon and the sun:
74:17 *Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and
 winter -- *thou* didst form them.
74:18 Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and
 a foolish people have contemned thy name.
74:19 Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild
 beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
74:20 Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the
 earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
74:21 Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the
 afflicted and needy praise thy name.
74:22 Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the
 foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
74:23 Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of
 those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.
75:1 <<To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' A Psalm of Asaph: a
 Song.>> Unto thee we give thanks, O God, we give thanks; and thy
 name is near: thy marvellous works declare it.
75:2 When I shall receive the assembly, I will judge with
 equity.
75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I
 have established its pillars. Selah.
75:4 I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked,
 Lift not up the horn:
75:5 Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a
 [stiff] neck.
75:6 For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the
 south doth exaltation [come]:
75:7 For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth
 another.
75:8 For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth
 with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the
 same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth
 drain off, [and] drink.
75:9 But as for me, I will declare for ever; I will sing psalms
 to the God of Jacob.
75:10 And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off; [but] the
 horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
76:1 <<To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of
 Asaph: a Song.>> In Judah is God known, his name is great in
 Israel;
76:2 And in Salem is his tent, and his dwelling-place in Zion.
76:3 There broke he the flashings of the bow, shield and sword
 and battle. Selah.
76:4 More glorious art thou, more excellent, than the mountains
 of prey.
76:5 The stout-hearted are made a spoil, they have slept their
 sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.
76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are
 cast into a dead sleep.
76:7 Thou, thou art to be feared, and who can stand before thee
 when once thou art angry?
76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from the heavens; the
 earth feared, and was still,
76:9 When God rose up to judgment, to save all the meek of the
 earth. Selah.
76:10 For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of
 fury wilt thou gird on thyself.
76:11 Vow and pay unto Jehovah your God: let all that are round
 about him bring presents unto him that is to be feared.
76:12 He cutteth off the spirit of princes; [he] is terrible to
 the kings of the earth.
77:1 <<To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.>> My
 voice is unto God, and I will cry; my voice is unto God, and he
 will give ear unto me.
77:2 In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was
 stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to
 be comforted.
77:3 I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit
 was overwhelmed. Selah.
77:4 Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and
 cannot speak.
77:5 I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times.
77:6 I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart,
 and my spirit maketh diligent search.
77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable
 no more?
77:8 Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath [his] word
 come to an end from generation to generation?
77:9 Hath ∙God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger
 shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
77:10 Then said I, This is my weakness: -- the years of the
 right hand of the Most High
77:11 Will I remember, -- the works of Jah; for I will remember
 thy wonders of old,
77:12 And I will meditate upon all thy work, and muse upon thy
 doings.
77:13 O God, thy way is in the sanctuary: who is so great a ∙god
 as God?
77:14 Thou art the ∙God that doest wonders; thou hast declared
 thy strength among the peoples.
77:15 Thou hast with [thine] arm redeemed thy people, the sons
 of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they
 trembled, yea, the depths were troubled:
77:17 The thick clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a
 sound, yea, thine arrows went abroad:
77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind, lightnings
 lit up the world; the earth was troubled and it quaked.
77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths are in the great
 waters; and thy footsteps are not known.
77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses
 and Aaron.
78:1 <<An instruction. Of Asaph.>> Give ear, O my people, to my
 law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles
 from of old,
78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told
 us:
78:4 We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to
 the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his
 strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.
78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a
 law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should
 make them known to their children;
78:6 That the generation to come might know [them], the children
 that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to
 their children,
78:7 And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget
 the works of ∙God, but observe his commandments;
78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and
 rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their
 heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with ∙God.
78:9 The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day
 of battle.
78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in
 his law;
78:11 And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he
 had shewn them.
78:12 In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the
 land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
78:13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and
 made the waters to stand as a heap;
78:14 And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the
 night with the light of fire.
78:15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as
 out of the depths, abundantly;
78:16 And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters
 to run down like rivers.
78:17 Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the
 Most High in the desert;
78:18 And they tempted ∙God in their heart, by asking meat for
 their lust;
78:19 And they spoke against God: they said, Is ∙God able to
 prepare a table in the wilderness?
78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and
 streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide
 flesh for his people?
78:21 Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was
 kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
78:22 Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his
 salvation;
78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had
 opened the doors of the heavens,
78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given
 them the corn of the heavens.
78:25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them
 provision to the full.
78:26 He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his
 strength he brought the south wind;
78:27 And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl
 as the sand of the seas,
78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about
 their habitations:
78:29 And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they
 lusted after, he brought to them.
78:30 They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was
 yet in their mouths,
78:31 When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew
 the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
78:32 For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his
 marvellous works;
78:33 And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in
 terror.
78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and
 sought early after ∙God;
78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and ∙God, the
 Most High, their redeemer.
78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him
 with their tongue;
78:37 For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they
 stedfast in his covenant.
78:38 But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and
 destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away,
 and did not stir up all his fury:
78:39 And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that
 passeth away and cometh not again.
78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve
 him in the desert!
78:41 And they turned again and tempted ∙God, and grieved the
 Holy One of Israel.
78:42 They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered
 them from the oppressor,
78:43 How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the
 field of Zoan;
78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams,
 that they could not drink;
78:45 He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and
 frogs, which destroyed them;
78:46 And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their
 labour unto the locust;
78:47 He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees
 with hail-stones;
78:48 And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their
 flocks to thunderbolts.
78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
 indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes.
78:50 He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from
 death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
78:51 And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits
 of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
78:52 And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and
 guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
78:53 And he led them safely, so that they were without fear;
 and the sea covered their enemies.
78:54 And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain,
 which his right hand purchased;
78:55 And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted
 them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel
 to dwell in their tents.
78:56 But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept
 not his testimonies,
78:57 And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their
 fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
78:58 And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
 moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
78:59 God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
78:60 And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he
 had dwelt among men,
78:61 And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into
 the hand of the oppressor;
78:62 And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very
 wroth with his inheritance:
78:63 The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were
 not praised in [nuptial] song;
78:64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no
 lamentation.
78:65 Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man
 that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
78:66 And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put
 them to everlasting reproach.
78:67 And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the
 tribe of Ephraim,
78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he
 loved;
78:69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the
 earth which he hath founded for ever.
78:70 And he chose David his servant, and took him from the
 sheepfolds:
78:71 From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed
 Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
78:72 And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart,
 and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.
79:1 <<A Psalm of Asaph.>> O God, the nations are come into thine
 inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid
 Jerusalem in heaps.
79:2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat
 unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the
 beasts of the earth:
79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about
 Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].
79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a
 derision to them that are round about us.
79:5 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy
 jealousy burn like fire?
79:6 Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known
 thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:
79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his
 habitation.
79:8 Remember not against us the iniquities of [our]
 forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us:
 for we are brought very low.
79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of
 thy name; and deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's
 sake.
79:10 Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let
 the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known
 among the nations in our sight.
79:11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee;
 according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that
 are appointed to die;
79:12 And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their
 bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O
 Lord.
79:13 And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give
 thanks unto thee for ever; we will shew forth thy praise from
 generation to generation.
80:1 <<To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A
 Psalm.>> Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest
 Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest [between] the cherubim,
 shine forth.
80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy
 strength, and come to our deliverance.
80:3 O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we
 shall be saved.
80:4 Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke
 against the prayer of thy people?
80:5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them
 tears to drink in large measure:
80:6 Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our
 enemies mock among themselves.
80:7 Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine,
 and we shall be saved.
80:8 Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out
 the nations, and plant it:
80:9 Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and
 filled the land;
80:10 The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the
 branches thereof were [like] cedars of ∙God;
80:11 It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto
 the river.
80:12 Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass
 by the way do pluck it?
80:13 The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of
 the field doth feed off it.
80:14 O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from
 the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;
80:15 Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the
 young plant thou madest strong for thyself.
80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the
 rebuke of thy countenance.
80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the
 son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.
80:18 So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will
 call upon thy name.
80:19 Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to
 shine, and we shall be saved.
81:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of
 Asaph.>> Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud
 unto the God of Jacob;
81:2 Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with
 the lute.
81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our
 feast day:
81:4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God
 of Jacob;
81:5 He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went
 forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I
 knew not.
81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were
 freed from the basket.
81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered
 thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the
 waters of Meribah. Selah.
81:8 Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if
 thou wouldest hearken unto me!
81:9 There shall no strange ∙god be in thee, neither shalt thou
 worship any foreign ∙god.
81:10 I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land
 of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11 But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would
 none of me.
81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness:
 they walked after their own counsels.
81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had
 walked in my ways!
81:14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my
 hand against their adversaries.
81:15 The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him;
 but their time would have been for ever.
81:16 And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea,
 with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.
82:1 <<A Psalm of Asaph.>> God standeth in the assembly of ∙God,
 he judgeth among the gods.
82:2 How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person
 of the wicked? Selah.
82:3 Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the
 afflicted and the destitute;
82:4 Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of
 the wicked.
82:5 They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in
 darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.
82:6 I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of
 the Most High;
82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the
 princes.
82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for *thou* shalt inherit all
 the nations.
83:1 <<A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.>> O God, keep not silence; hold
 not thy peace, and be not still, O ∙God:
83:2 For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate
 thee lift up the head.
83:3 They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult
 against thy hidden ones:
83:4 They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a
 nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
83:5 For they have consulted together with one heart: they have
 made an alliance together against thee.
83:6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the
 Hagarites;
83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the
 inhabitants of Tyre;
83:8 Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the
 sons of Lot. Selah.
83:9 Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at
 the torrent of Kishon:
83:10 Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the
 ground.
83:11 Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their
 chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
83:12 For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's
 dwelling-places in possession.
83:13 O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble
 before the wind.
83:14 As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the
 mountains on fire,
83:15 So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy
 whirlwind.
83:16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name,
 O Jehovah.
83:17 Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let
 them be confounded and perish:
83:18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah,
 art the Most High over all the earth.
84:1 <<To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. Of the sons of
 Korah. A Psalm.>> How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of
 hosts!
84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of
 Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living ∙God.
84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest
 for herself, where she layeth her young, thine altars, O
 Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.
84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be
 constantly praising thee. Selah.
84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, -- they, in
 whose heart are the highways.
84:6 Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a
 well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.
84:7 They go from strength to strength: [each one] will appear
 before God in Zion.
84:8 Jehovah, God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of
 Jacob. Selah.
84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
 anointed.
84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had
 rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than
 dwell in the tents of wickedness.
84:11 For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give
 grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that
 walk uprightly.
84:12 Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man that confideth in
 thee!
85:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.>>
 Thou hast been favourable, Jehovah, unto thy land; thou hast
 turned the captivity of Jacob:
85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast
 covered all their sin. Selah.
85:3 Thou hast withdrawn all thy wrath; thou hast turned from
 the fierceness of thine anger.
85:4 Bring us back, O God of our salvation, and cause thine
 indignation toward us to cease.
85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out
 thine anger from generation to generation?
85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice
 in thee?
85:7 Shew us thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, and grant us thy
 salvation.
85:8 I will hear what ∙God, Jehovah, will speak; for he will
 speak peace unto his people, and to his godly ones: but let
 them not turn again to folly.
85:9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory
 may dwell in our land.
85:10 Loving-kindness and truth are met together; righteousness
 and peace have kissed each other:
85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness
 shall look down from the heavens.
85:12 Jehovah also will give what is good, and our land shall
 yield its increase.
85:13 Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set his
 footsteps on the way.
86:1 <<A Prayer of David.>> Incline thine ear, Jehovah, answer me;
 for I am afflicted and needy.
86:2 Keep my soul, for I am godly; O thou my God, save thy
 servant who confideth in thee.
86:3 Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for unto thee do I call all
 the day.
86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, Lord, do I
 lift up my soul.
86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of
 great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.
86:6 Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer, and attend to the
 voice of my supplications.
86:7 In the day of my distress I will call upon thee, for thou
 wilt answer me.
86:8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, Lord, and
 there is nothing like unto thy works.
86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship
 before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.
86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art
 God, thou alone.
86:11 Teach me thy way, Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: unite
 my heart to fear thy name.
86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart;
 and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
86:13 For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast
 delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of
 the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee
 before them.
86:15 But thou, Lord, art a ∙God merciful and gracious, slow to
 anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.
86:16 Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength
 unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
86:17 Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see
 it, and be ashamed; for thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and
 comforted me.
87:1 <<Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.>> His foundation is
 in the mountains of holiness.
87:2 Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion more than all the
 habitations of Jacob.
87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among them that
 know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: this [man]
 was born there.
87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was
 born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.
87:6 Jehovah will count, when he inscribeth the peoples, This
 [man] was born there. Selah.
87:7 As well the singers as the dancers [shall say], All my
 springs are in thee.
88:1 <<A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief
 Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the
 Ezrahite.>> Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day
 [and] in the night before thee.
88:2 Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my
 cry.
88:3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh
 to Sheol.
88:4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as
 a man that hath no strength:
88:5 Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the
 grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from
 thy hand.
88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the
 deeps.
88:7 Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me]
 with all thy waves. Selah.
88:8 Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast
 made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot
 come forth.
88:9 Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee,
 Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands
 unto thee.
88:10 Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise
 and praise thee? Selah.
88:11 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy
 faithfulness in Destruction?
88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy
 righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
88:13 But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the
 morning my prayer cometh before thee.
88:14 Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest
 thou thy face from me?
88:15 I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy
 terrors, [and] I am distracted.
88:16 Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have
 brought me to nought:
88:17 They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have
 compassed me about together.
88:18 Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar
 friends are darkness.
89:1 <<An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.>> I will sing of the
 loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make
 known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.
89:2 For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in
 the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.
89:3 I have made a covenant with mine elect, I have sworn unto
 David my servant:
89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne
 from generation to generation. Selah.
89:5 And the heavens shall celebrate thy wonders, O Jehovah, and
 thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints.
89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared to Jehovah? [who]
 among the sons of the mighty shall be likened to Jehovah?
89:7 ∙God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints,
 and terrible for all that are round about him.
89:8 Jehovah, God of hosts, who is like unto thee, the strong
 Jah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
89:9 *Thou* rulest the pride of the sea: when its waves arise,
 *thou* stillest them.
89:10 Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast
 scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
89:11 Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world
 and its fulness, *thou* hast founded them.
89:12 The north and the south, *thou* hast created them: Tabor
 and Hermon triumph in thy name.
89:13 Thine is the arm of might: strong is thy hand, high is thy
 right hand.
89:14 Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy
 throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face.
89:15 Blessed is the people that know the shout of joy: they
 walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
89:16 In thy name are they joyful all the day, and in thy
 righteousness are they exalted.
89:17 For thou art the glory of their strength; and in thy
 favour our horn shall be exalted.
89:18 For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our
 king.
89:19 Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I
 have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out
 of the people.
89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I
 anointed him:
89:21 With whom my hand shall be established; and mine arm shall
 strengthen him.
89:22 No enemy shall exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness
 afflict him;
89:23 But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and
 will smite them that hate him.
89:24 And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with
 him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted.
89:25 And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in
 the rivers.
89:26 *He* shall call unto me, Thou art my father, my ∙God, and
 the rock of my salvation;
89:27 And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of
 the kings of the earth.
89:28 My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and
 my covenant shall stand fast with him;
89:29 And I will establish his seed for ever, and his throne as
 the days of heaven.
89:30 If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine
 ordinances;
89:31 If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments:
89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and
 their iniquity with stripes.
89:33 Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take
 from him, nor belie my faithfulness;
89:34 My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that
 is gone out of my lips.
89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto
 David:
89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun
 before me;
89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and the
 witness in the sky is firm. Selah.
89:38 But thou hast rejected and cast off; thou hast been very
 wroth with thine anointed:
89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast
 profaned his crown to the ground:
89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought
 his strongholds to ruin.
89:41 All that pass by the way plunder him; he is become a
 reproach to his neighbours.
89:42 Thou hast exalted the right hand of his oppressors; thou
 hast made all his enemies to rejoice:
89:43 Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and hast
 not made him stand in the battle.
89:44 Thou hast made his brightness to cease, and cast his
 throne down to the ground;
89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened; thou hast
 covered him with shame. Selah.
89:46 How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall
 thy fury burn like fire?
89:47 Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou
 created all the children of men to be vanity?
89:48 What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver
 his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
89:49 Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, [which]
 thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants -- that I
 bear in my bosom [that of] all the mighty peoples --
89:51 Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached,
 wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
89:52 Blessed be Jehovah for evermore! Amen, and Amen.
90:1 <<A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.>> Lord, *thou* hast been
 our dwelling-place in all generations.
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst
 formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity
 thou art ∙God.
90:3 Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest,
 Return, children of men.
90:4 For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when
 it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a
 sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
90:6 In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the
 evening it is cut down and withereth.
90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we
 troubled.
90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins]
 in the light of thy countenance.
90:9 For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years
 as a [passing] thought.
90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and
 if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their
 pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly
 away.
90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath
 according to the fear of thee?
90:12 So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a
 wise heart.
90:13 Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee
 concerning thy servants.
90:14 Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may
 sing for joy and be glad all our days.
90:15 Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast
 afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen
 evil.
90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty
 unto their sons.
90:17 And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and
 establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of
 our hands, establish thou it.
91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall
 abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
91:2 I say of Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress; my God, I will
 confide in him.
91:3 Surely *he* shall deliver thee from the snare of the
 fowler, [and] from the destructive pestilence.
91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings
 shalt thou find refuge: his truth is a shield and buckler.
91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, for the
 arrow that flieth by day,
91:6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, for the
 destruction that wasteth at noonday.
91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy
 right hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.
91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward
 of the wicked.
91:9 Because *thou* hast made Jehovah, my refuge, the Most High,
 thy dwelling-place,
91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague
 come nigh thy tent.
91:11 For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to
 keep thee in all thy ways:
91:12 They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash
 thy foot against a stone.
91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder; the young
 lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under foot.
91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I
 deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my
 name.
91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be
 with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him.
91:16 With length of days will I satisfy him, and shew him my
 salvation.
92:1 <<A Psalm, a Song, for the Sabbath day.>> It is good to give
 thanks unto Jehovah, and to sing psalms unto thy name, O Most
 High;
92:2 To declare thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy
 faithfulness in the nights,
92:3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon
 the Higgaion with the harp.
92:4 For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work; I
 will triumph in the works of thy hands.
92:5 Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very
 deep:
92:6 A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand
 it.
92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the
 workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed
 for ever.
92:8 And thou, Jehovah, art on high for evermore.
92:9 For lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, for lo, thine enemies
 shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like a buffalo's: I shall be
 anointed with fresh oil.
92:11 And mine eye shall see [its desire] on mine enemies; mine
 ears shall hear [it] of the evil-doers that rise up against me.
92:12 The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall
 grow like a cedar on Lebanon.
92:13 Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall
 flourish in the courts of our God:
92:14 They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap
 and green;
92:15 To shew that Jehovah is upright: [he is] my rock, and
 there is no unrighteousness in him.
93:1 Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty:
 Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with
 strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved.
93:2 Thy throne is established of old; thou art from eternity.
93:3 The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their
 voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.
93:4 Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters,
 than the mighty breakers of the sea.
93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thy house,
 O Jehovah, for ever.
94:1 O ∙God of vengeances, Jehovah, ∙God of vengeances, shine
 forth;
94:2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward
 to the proud.
94:3 How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the
 wicked triumph?
94:4 [How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence -- all
 the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
94:5 They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine
 inheritance;
94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the
 fatherless,
94:7 And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob
 regard [it].
94:8 Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when
 will ye be wise?
94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed
 the eye, shall he not see?
94:10 He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct --
 he that teacheth man knowledge?
94:11 Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom
 thou teachest out of thy law;
94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil,
 until the pit be digged for the wicked.
94:14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he
 forsake his inheritance;
94:15 For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the
 upright in heart shall follow it.
94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will
 stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
94:17 If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt
 in silence.
94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O
 Jehovah, held me up.
94:19 In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy
 comforts have delighted my soul.
94:20 Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which
 frameth mischief into a law?
94:21 They band together against the soul of the righteous, and
 condemn innocent blood.
94:22 But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of
 my refuge.
94:23 And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut
 them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.
95:1 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to
 the rock of our salvation;
95:2 Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout
 aloud unto him with psalms.
95:3 For Jehovah is a great ∙God, and a great king above all
 gods.
95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights
 of the mountains are his also:
95:5 The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the
 dry [land].
95:6 Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before
 Jehovah our Maker.
95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and
 the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,
95:8 Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of
 Massah, in the wilderness;
95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
95:10 Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said,
 It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not
 known my ways;
95:11 So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter
 into my rest.
96:1 Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: sing unto Jehovah, all the
 earth.
96:2 Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name; publish his salvation
 from day to day.
96:3 Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works
 among all the peoples.
96:4 For Jehovah is great and exceedingly to be praised; he is
 terrible above all gods.
96:5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but Jehovah made
 the heavens.
96:6 Majesty and splendour are before him; strength and beauty
 are in his sanctuary.
96:7 Give unto Jehovah, ye families of peoples, give unto
 Jehovah glory and strength;
96:8 Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; bring an oblation
 and come into his courts;
96:9 Worship Jehovah in holy splendour; tremble before him, all
 the earth.
96:10 Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth! yea, the world is
 established, it shall not be moved; he will execute judgment
 upon the peoples with equity.
96:11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let
 the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
96:12 Let the field exult and all that is therein. Then shall
 all the trees of the forest sing for joy,
96:13 Before Jehovah, for he cometh; for he cometh to judge the
 earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the
 peoples in his faithfulness.
97:1 Jehovah reigneth: let the earth be glad, let the many isles
 rejoice.
97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and
 judgment are the foundation of his throne.
97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries
 round about.
97:4 His lightnings lightened the world: the earth saw, and
 trembled.
97:5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah,
 at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples
 see his glory.
97:7 Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast
 themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods.
97:8 Zion heard, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were
 glad, because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.
97:9 For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth;
 thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.
97:10 Ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: he preserveth the souls
 of his saints, he delivereth them out of the hand of the
 wicked.
97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright
 in heart.
97:12 Rejoice in Jehovah, ye righteous; and give thanks in
 remembrance of his holiness.
98:1 <<A Psalm.>> Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: for he hath
 done wondrous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath
 wrought salvation for him.
98:2 Jehovah hath made known his salvation: his righteousness
 hath he openly shewed in the sight of the nations.
98:3 He hath remembered his loving-kindness and his faithfulness
 toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen
 the salvation of our God.
98:4 Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and
 shout for joy, and sing psalms.
98:5 Sing psalms unto Jehovah with the harp: with the harp, and
 the voice of a song;
98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise
 before the King, Jehovah.
98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and
 they that dwell therein;
98:8 Let the floods clap [their] hands; let the mountains sing
 for joy together,
98:9 Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will
 judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with
 equity.
99:1 Jehovah reigneth: let the peoples tremble. He sitteth
 [between the] cherubim: let the earth be moved.
99:2 Jehovah is great in Zion, and he is high above all the
 peoples.
99:3 They shall praise thy great and terrible name, -- it is
 holy! --
99:4 And the strength of the king that loveth justice. *Thou*
 hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and
 righteousness in Jacob.
99:5 Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at his footstool. He is
 holy!
99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them
 that call upon his name: they called unto Jehovah, and *he*
 answered them.
99:7 He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his
 testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.
99:8 Jehovah, our God, *thou* answeredst them: a forgiving ∙God
 wast thou unto them, though thou tookest vengeance of their
 doings.
99:9 Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at the hill of his
 holiness; for holy is Jehovah our God.
100:1 <<A Psalm of thanksgiving.>> Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all
 the earth!
100:2 Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with
 exultation.
100:3 Know that Jehovah is God: it is he that hath made us, and
 not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his
 pasture.
100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving [and] into his
 courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name:
100:5 For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness [endureth] for
 ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.
101:1 <<A Psalm of David.>> I will sing of loving-kindness and
 judgment: unto thee, Jehovah, will I sing psalms.
101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. When wilt
 thou come unto me? I will walk within my house in the integrity
 of my heart.
101:3 I will set no thing of Belial before mine eyes: I hate the
 work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know
 evil.
101:5 Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I
 destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not
 suffer.
101:6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that
 they may dwell with me; he that walketh in a perfect way, he
 shall serve me.
101:7 He that practiseth deceit shall not dwell within my house;
 he that speaketh falsehoods shall not subsist in my sight.
101:8 Every morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land:
 to cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.
102:1 <<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and
 poureth out his complaint before Jehovah.>> Jehovah, hear my
 prayer, and let my cry come unto thee.
102:2 Hide not thy face from me: in the day of my trouble,
 incline thine ear unto me; in the day I call, answer me
 speedily.
102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are
 burned as a firebrand.
102:4 My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have
 forgotten to eat my bread.
102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to
 my flesh.
102:6 I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an
 owl in desolate places;
102:7 I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.
102:8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; they that are mad
 against me swear by me.
102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink
 with weeping,
102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast
 lifted me up, and cast me down.
102:11 My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am
 withered like grass.
102:12 But thou, Jehovah, abidest for ever, and thy memorial
 from generation to generation.
102:13 *Thou* wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion: for
 it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come.
102:14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour
 her dust.
102:15 And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all
 the kings of the earth thy glory.
102:16 When Jehovah shall build up Zion, he will appear in his
 glory.
102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute one, and not
 despise their prayer.
102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come; and a
 people that shall be created shall praise Jah:
102:19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;
 from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,
102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that
 are appointed to die;
102:21 That the name of Jehovah may be declared in Zion, and his
 praise in Jerusalem,
102:22 When the peoples shall be gathered together, and the
 kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.
102:23 He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days.
102:24 I said, My ∙God, take me not away in the midst of my
 days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.
102:25 Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are
 the work of thy hands:
102:26 *They* shall perish, but *thou* continuest; and all of
 them shall grow old as a garment: as a vesture shalt thou
 change them, and they shall be changed.
102:27 But thou art the Same, and thy years shall have no end.
102:28 The children of thy servants shall abide, and their seed
 shall be established before thee.
103:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all
 that is within me, [bless] his holy name!
103:2 Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy
 diseases;
103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee
 with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
103:5 Who satisfieth thine old age with good [things]; thy youth
 is renewed like the eagle's.
103:6 Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that
 are oppressed.
103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the
 children of Israel.
103:8 Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
 abundant in loving-kindness.
103:9 He will not always chide, neither will he keep [his anger]
 for ever.
103:10 He hath not dealt with us according to our sins, nor
 rewarded us according to our iniquities.
103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is
 his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.
103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he
 removed our transgressions from us.
103:13 As a father pitieth [his] children, so Jehovah pitieth
 them that fear him.
103:14 For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are
 dust.
103:15 As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the
 field, so he flourisheth:
103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the
 place thereof knoweth it no more.
103:17 But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting
 and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his
 righteousness unto children's children,
103:18 To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember
 his precepts to do them.
103:19 Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens, and
 his kingdom ruleth over all.
103:20 Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that
 execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
103:21 Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his that
 do his will.
103:22 Bless Jehovah, all his works, in all places of his
 dominion. Bless Jehovah, O my soul!
104:1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul! Jehovah my God, thou art very
 great; thou art clothed with majesty and splendour;
104:2 Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching
 out the heavens like a tent-curtain; --
104:3 Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters,
 who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of
 the wind;
104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flame of
 fire.
104:5 He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be
 removed for ever.
104:6 Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture;
 the waters stood above the mountains:
104:7 At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they
 hasted away; --
104:8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which
 thou hadst founded for them; --
104:9 Thou hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that
 they turn not again to cover the earth.
104:10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys: they run among
 the mountains;
104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild
 asses quench their thirst.
104:12 The birds of heaven dwell by them; they give forth their
 voice from among the branches.
104:13 He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: the
 earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
104:14 He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for
 the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,
104:15 And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making [his]
 face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's
 heart.
104:16 The trees of Jehovah are satisfied, the cedars of
 Lebanon, which he hath planted,
104:17 Where the birds make their nests; [as for] the stork, the
 fir trees are her house.
104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a
 refuge for the rock-badgers.
104:19 He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth its going
 down.
104:20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the
 beasts of the forest creep forth:
104:21 The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their
 food from ∙God.
104:22 The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their
 dens.
104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until
 the evening.
104:24 How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah! in wisdom hast
 thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
104:25 Yonder is the great and wide sea: therein are moving
 things innumerable, living creatures small and great.
104:26 There go the ships; [there] that leviathan, which thou
 hast formed to play therein.
104:27 These all look unto thee, that thou mayest give their
 food in its season:
104:28 That thou givest unto them, they gather; thou openest thy
 hand, they are filled with good.
104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away
 their breath, they expire and return to their dust.
104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created, and thou
 renewest the face of the earth.
104:31 The glory of Jehovah will endure for ever; Jehovah will
 rejoice in his works.
104:32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth
 the mountains, and they smoke.
104:33 I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live; I will sing
 psalms to my God while I have my being.
104:34 My meditation shall be pleasant unto him; I will rejoice
 in Jehovah.
104:35 Sinners shall be consumed out of the earth, and the
 wicked shall be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Hallelujah!
105:1 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make
 known his acts among the peoples.
105:2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his
 wondrous works.
105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice
 that seek Jehovah.
105:4 Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;
105:5 Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his
 miracles and the judgments of his mouth:
105:6 Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his
 chosen ones.
105:7 He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the
 earth.
105:8 He is ever mindful of his covenant, -- the word which he
 commanded to a thousand generations, --
105:9 Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
105:10 And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel
 for an everlasting covenant,
105:11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot
 of your inheritance;
105:12 When they were a few men in number, of small account, and
 strangers in it.
105:13 And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to
 another people.
105:14 He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings
 for their sakes,
105:15 [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my
 prophets no harm.
105:16 And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the
 whole staff of bread.
105:17 He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.
105:18 They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into
 irons;
105:19 Until the time when what he said came about: the word of
 Jehovah tried him.
105:20 The king sent and loosed him -- the ruler of peoples --
 and let him go free.
105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his
 possessions:
105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders
 wisdom.
105:23 And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the
 land of Ham.
105:24 And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them
 mightier than their oppressors.
105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal
 subtilly with his servants.
105:26 He sent Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had
 chosen:
105:27 They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land
 of Ham.
105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
 against his word.
105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish
 to die.
105:30 Their land swarmed with frogs, -- in the chambers of
 their kings.
105:31 He spoke, and there came dog-flies, [and] gnats in all
 their borders.
105:32 He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their
 land;
105:33 And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke
 the trees of their borders.
105:34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even
 without number;
105:35 And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up
 the fruit of their ground.
105:36 And he smote every firstborn in their land, the
 firstfruits of all their vigour.
105:37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there
 was not one feeble among their tribes.
105:38 Egypt rejoiced at their departure; for the fear of them
 had fallen upon them.
105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light
 in the night.
105:40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
 with the bread of heaven.
105:41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in
 the dry places [like] a river.
105:42 For he remembered his holy word, [and] Abraham his
 servant;
105:43 And he brought forth his people with gladness, his chosen
 with rejoicing;
105:44 And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took
 possession of the labour of the peoples:
105:45 That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws.
 Hallelujah!
106:1 Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good;
 for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew
 forth all his praise?
106:3 Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth
 righteousness at all times.
106:4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy
 people; visit me with thy salvation:
106:5 That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I
 may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with
 thine inheritance.
106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed
 iniquity, we have done wickedly.
106:7 Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works;
 they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but
 they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
106:8 Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make
 known his might.
106:9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led
 them through the deeps as through a wilderness.
106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them],
 and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
106:11 And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not
 one of them left.
106:12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
106:13 They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his
 counsel:
106:14 And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and
 tempted ∙God in the desert.
106:15 Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into
 their soul.
106:16 And they envied Moses in the camp, [and] Aaron, the saint
 of Jehovah.
106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the
 company of Abiram;
106:18 And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up
 the wicked.
106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten
 image;
106:20 And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox
 that eateth grass.
106:21 They forgot ∙God their Saviour, who had done great things
 in Egypt,
106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the
 Red Sea.
106:23 And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses,
 his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his
 fury, lest he should destroy [them].
106:24 And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not
 his word,
106:25 But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the
 voice of Jehovah.
106:26 And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make
 them fall in the wilderness;
106:27 And that he would make their seed fall among the nations,
 and disperse them through the countries.
106:28 And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the
 sacrifices of the dead;
106:29 And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a
 plague broke out among them.
106:30 Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the
 plague was stayed;
106:31 And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from
 generation to generation, for evermore.
106:32 And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and
 it went ill with Moses on their account;
106:33 For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke
 unadvisedly with his lips.
106:34 They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded
 them;
106:35 But they mingled with the nations, and learned their
 works;
106:36 And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto
 them:
106:37 And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
 demons,
106:38 And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of
 their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan;
 and the land was polluted with blood.
106:39 And they were defiled with their works, and went
 a-whoring in their doings.
106:40 Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people,
 and he abhorred his inheritance;
106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they
 that hated them ruled over them:
106:42 And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought
 into subjection under their hand.
106:43 Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked
 [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their
 iniquity.
106:44 But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;
106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented
 according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
106:46 And he caused them to find compassion of all those that
 had carried them captives.
106:47 Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the
 nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in
 thy praise.
106:48 Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and
 to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!
107:1 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
107:2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed
 from the hand of the oppressor,
107:3 And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from
 the west, from the north and from the sea.
107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they
 found no city of habitation;
107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them:
107:6 Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he
 delivered them out of their distresses,
107:7 And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go
 to a city of habitation.
107:8 Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness,
 and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
107:9 For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the
 hungry soul with good.
107:10 Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound
 in affliction and iron,
107:11 Because they had rebelled against the words of ∙God, and
 had despised the counsel of the Most High; ...
107:12 And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled,
 and there was none to help:
107:13 Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he
 saved them out of their distresses;
107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
 and broke their bands in sunder.
107:15 Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his
 loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of
 men;
107:16 For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder
 the bars of iron.
107:17 Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because
 of their iniquities, are afflicted;
107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw
 near unto the gates of death:
107:19 Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he
 saveth them out of their distresses;
107:20 He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth
 them from their destructions.
107:21 Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his
 loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of
 men,
107:22 And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
 declare his works in joyful song.
107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business
 in great waters,
107:24 These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the
 deep.
107:25 For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which
 lifteth up the waves thereof:
107:26 They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths;
 their soul is melted because of trouble;
107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and
 they are at their wits' end:
107:28 Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he
 bringeth them out of their distresses;
107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are
 still:
107:30 And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth
 them unto their desired haven.
107:31 Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his
 loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of
 men;
107:32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the
 people, and praise him in the session of the elders.
107:33 He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs
 into dry ground;
107:34 A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness
 of them that dwell therein.
107:35 He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the
 dry land into water-springs;
107:36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they
 establish a city of habitation;
107:37 And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits
 of increase;
107:38 And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied
 greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
107:39 And they are diminished and brought low, through
 oppression, adversity, and sorrow:
107:40 He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to
 wander in a pathless waste;
107:41 But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction,
 and maketh [him] families like flocks.
107:42 The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all
 unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.
107:43 Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them
 understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.
108:1 <<A Song, a Psalm of David.>> My heart is fixed, O God: I
 will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even [with] my glory.
108:2 Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.
108:3 I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Jehovah; of
 thee will I sing psalms among the nations:
108:4 For thy loving-kindness is great above the heavens, and
 thy truth is unto the clouds.
108:5 Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God, and thy glory
 above all the earth.
108:6 That thy beloved ones may be delivered: save with thy
 right hand, and answer me.
108:7 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will
 divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
108:8 Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the
 strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
108:9 Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; over
 Philistia will I shout aloud.
108:10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me
 unto Edom?
108:11 [Wilt] not [thou], O God, who didst cast us off? and
 didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?
108:12 Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
108:13 Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will
 tread down our adversaries.
109:1 <<To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.>> O God of my
 praise, be not silent:
109:2 For the mouth of the wicked [man] and the mouth of deceit
 are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying
 tongue,
109:3 And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and
 they fight against me without a cause.
109:4 For my love they are mine adversaries; but I [give myself
 unto] prayer.
109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my
 love.
109:6 Set a wicked [man] over him, and let [the] adversary stand
 at his right hand;
109:7 When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let
 his prayer become sin;
109:8 Let his days be few, let another take his office;
109:9 Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
109:10 Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek
 [their bread] far from their desolate places;
109:11 Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and
 let strangers despoil his labour;
109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither
 let there be any to favour his fatherless children;
109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following
 let their name be blotted out:
109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with
 Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;
109:15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut
 off the memory of them from the earth:
109:16 Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but
 persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in
 heart, to slay him.
109:17 And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he
 delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.
109:18 And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so
 let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his
 bones;
109:19 Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth
 himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.
109:20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,
 and of them that speak evil against my soul.
109:21 But do *thou* for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake;
 because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me:
109:22 For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded
 within me.
109:23 I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed
 about like the locust;
109:24 My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath
 lost its fatness;
109:25 And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look
 upon me they shake their heads.
109:26 Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy
 loving-kindness:
109:27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that *thou*,
 Jehovah, hast done it.
109:28 Let *them* curse, but bless *thou*; when they rise up,
 let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.
109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let
 them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.
109:30 I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I
 will praise him among the multitude.
109:31 For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save
 him from those that judge his soul.
110:1 <<Psalm of David.>> Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my
 right hand, until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy
 feet.
110:2 Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion:
 rule in the midst of thine enemies.
110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in
 holy splendour: from the womb of the morning [shall come] to
 thee the dew of thy youth.
110:4 Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest
 for ever after the order of Melchisedek.
110:5 The Lord at thy right hand will smite through kings in the
 day of his anger.
110:6 He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill [all
 places] with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over
 a great country.
110:7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he
 lift up the head.
111:1 Hallelujah! I will celebrate Jehovah with [my] whole
 heart, in the council of the upright, and in the assembly.
111:2 Great are the works of Jehovah; sought out of all that
 delight in them.
111:3 His work is majesty and splendour, and his righteousness
 abideth for ever.
111:4 He hath made his wonders to be remembered: Jehovah is
 gracious and merciful.
111:5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him; he is ever
 mindful of his covenant.
111:6 He hath shewn his people the power of his works, to give
 them the heritage of the nations.
111:7 The works of his hands are truth and judgment; all his
 precepts are faithful:
111:8 Maintained for ever and ever, done in truth and
 uprightness.
111:9 He sent deliverance unto his people; he hath commanded his
 covenant for ever: holy and terrible is his name.
111:10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good
 understanding have all they that do [his precepts]: his praise
 abideth for ever.
112:1 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, that
 delighteth greatly in his commandments.
112:2 His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of
 the upright shall be blessed.
112:3 Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house; and his
 righteousness abideth for ever.
112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness; he
 is gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
112:5 It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he
 will sustain his cause in judgment.
112:6 For he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be
 in everlasting remembrance.
112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed
 confiding in Jehovah;
112:8 His heart is maintained, he is not afraid, until he see
 [his desire] upon his oppressors.
112:9 He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his
 righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with
 honour.
112:10 The wicked [man] shall see [it] and be vexed; he shall
 gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked
 shall perish.
113:1 Hallelujah! Praise, ye servants of Jehovah, praise the
 name of Jehovah.
113:2 Blessed be the name of Jehovah, from this time forth and
 for evermore!
113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the
 same, let Jehovah's name be praised.
113:4 Jehovah is high above all nations, his glory above the
 heavens.
113:5 Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his
 dwelling on high;
113:6 Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the
 earth?
113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill
 he lifteth up the needy,
113:8 To set [him] among nobles, among the nobles of his people.
113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful
 mother of sons. Hallelujah!
114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a
 people of strange language,
114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
114:3 The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
114:5 What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou
 Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
114:6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like
 lambs?
114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the
 presence of the +God of Jacob,
114:8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a
 fountain of waters.
115:1 Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, but unto thy name
 give glory, for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth's sake.
115:2 Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God?
115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he
 pleased.
115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:
115:5 They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and
 they see not;
115:6 They have ears, and they hear not; a nose have they, and
 they smell not;
115:7 They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and
 they walk not; they give no sound through their throat.
115:8 They that make them are like unto them, -- every one that
 confideth in them.
115:9 O Israel, confide thou in Jehovah: he is their help and
 their shield.
115:10 House of Aaron, confide in Jehovah: he is their help and
 their shield.
115:11 Ye that fear Jehovah, confide in Jehovah: he is their
 help and their shield.
115:12 Jehovah hath been mindful of us: he will bless, he will
 bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;
115:13 He will bless them that fear Jehovah, both the small and
 the great.
115:14 Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your
 children.
115:15 Ye are blessed of Jehovah, who made the heavens and the
 earth.
115:16 The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, but the earth
 hath he given to the children of men.
115:17 The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into
 silence;
115:18 But *we* will bless Jah from this time forth and for
 evermore. Hallelujah!
116:1 I love Jehovah, for he hath heard my voice [and] my
 supplications;
116:2 For he hath inclined his ear unto me, and I will call upon
 him during [all] my days.
116:3 The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of
 Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
116:4 Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: I beseech thee,
 Jehovah, deliver my soul.
116:5 Gracious is Jehovah and righteous; and our God is
 merciful.
116:6 Jehovah keepeth the simple: I was brought low, and he
 saved me.
116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for Jehovah hath dealt
 bountifully with thee.
116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
 tears, my feet from falling.
116:9 I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.
116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken. As for me, I was
 greatly afflicted.
116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
116:12 What shall I render unto Jehovah, [for] all his benefits
 toward me?
116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name
 of Jehovah.
116:14 I will perform my vows unto Jehovah, yea, before all his
 people.
116:15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his
 saints.
116:16 Yea, Jehovah! for I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the
 son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and
 will call upon the name of Jehovah.
116:18 I will perform my vows unto Jehovah, yea, before all his
 people,
116:19 In the courts of Jehovah's house, in the midst of thee, O
 Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
117:1 Praise Jehovah, all ye nations; laud him, all ye peoples;
117:2 For his loving-kindness is great toward us, and the truth
 of Jehovah [endureth] for ever. Hallelujah!
118:1 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
118:2 Oh let Israel say, that his loving-kindness [endureth] for
 ever.
118:3 Oh let the house of Aaron say, that his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever.
118:4 Oh let them that fear Jehovah say, that his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
118:5 I called upon Jah in distress; Jah answered me [and set
 me] in a large place.
118:6 Jehovah is for me, I will not fear; what can man do unto
 me?
118:7 Jehovah is for me among them that help me; and I shall see
 [my desire] upon them that hate me.
118:8 It is better to trust in Jehovah than to put confidence in
 man;
118:9 It is better to trust in Jehovah than to put confidence in
 nobles.
118:10 All nations encompassed me; but in the name of Jehovah
 have I destroyed them.
118:11 They encompassed me, yea, encompassed me; but in the name
 of Jehovah have I destroyed them.
118:12 They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the
 fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed
 them.
118:13 Thou hast thrust hard at me that I might fall; but
 Jehovah helped me.
118:14 My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my
 salvation.
118:15 The voice of triumph and salvation is in the tents of the
 righteous: the right hand of Jehovah doeth valiantly;
118:16 The right hand of Jehovah is exalted, the right hand of
 Jehovah doeth valiantly.
118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of Jah.
118:18 Jah hath chastened me sore; but he hath not given me over
 unto death.
118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into
 them; Jah will I praise.
118:20 This is the gate of Jehovah: the righteous shall enter
 therein.
118:21 I will give thee thanks, for thou hast answered me, and
 art become my salvation.
118:22 [The] stone which the builders rejected hath become the
 head of the corner:
118:23 This is of Jehovah; it is wonderful in our eyes.
118:24 This is the day that Jehovah hath made; we will rejoice
 and be glad in it.
118:25 Oh save, Jehovah, I beseech thee; Jehovah, I beseech
 thee, oh send prosperity!
118:26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of Jehovah. We have
 blessed you out of the house of Jehovah.
118:27 Jehovah is ∙God, and he hath given us light: bind the
 sacrifice with cords, -- up to the horns of the altar.
118:28 Thou art my ∙God, and I will give thee thanks; my God, I
 will exalt thee.
118:29 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
119:1 ALEPH. Blessed are the perfect in the way, who walk in the
 law of Jehovah.
119:2 Blessed are they that observe his testimonies, that seek
 him with the whole heart;
119:3 Who also do no unrighteousness: they walk in his ways.
119:4 Thou hast enjoined thy precepts, to be kept diligently.
119:5 Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all
 thy commandments.
119:7 I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I
 shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
119:8 I will keep thy statutes: forsake me not utterly.
119:9 BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his path? by
 taking heed according to thy word.
119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: let me not wander
 from thy commandments.
119:11 Thy ∙word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin
 against thee.
119:12 Blessed art thou, Jehovah! teach me thy statutes.
119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy
 mouth.
119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much
 as] in all wealth.
119:15 I will meditate upon thy precepts, and have respect unto
 thy paths.
119:16 I delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy
 word.
119:17 GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant [and] I shall
 live; and I will keep thy word.
119:18 Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of
 thy law.
119:19 I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments
 from me.
119:20 My soul breaketh for longing after thy judgments at all
 times.
119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, who wander
 from thy commandments.
119:22 Roll off from me reproach and contempt; for I observe thy
 testimonies.
119:23 Princes also did sit [and] talk together against me: thy
 servant doth meditate in thy statutes.
119:24 Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counsellors.
119:25 DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken me
 according to thy word.
119:26 I have declared my ways, and thou hast answered me: teach
 me thy statutes.
119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, and I will
 meditate upon thy wondrous works.
119:28 My soul melteth for sadness: strengthen me according to
 thy word.
119:29 Remove from me the way of falsehood, and graciously grant
 me thy law.
119:30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; thy judgments have
 I set [before me].
119:31 I cleave unto thy testimonies; Jehovah, let me not be
 ashamed.
119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt
 enlarge my heart.
119:33 HE. Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of thy statutes, and I
 will observe it [unto] the end.
119:34 Give me understanding, and I will observe thy law; and I
 will keep it with [my] whole heart.
119:35 Make me to walk in the path of thy commandments; for
 therein do I delight.
119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to gain.
119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; quicken me in
 thy way.
119:38 Establish thy ∙word unto thy servant, who is [devoted] to
 thy fear.
119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear; for thy judgments are
 good.
119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in
 thy righteousness.
119:41 VAU. And let thy loving-kindness come unto me, O Jehovah,
 -- thy salvation according to thy ∙word.
119:42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth
 me; for I confide in thy word.
119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth;
 because I have hoped in thy judgments.
119:44 Then will I keep thy law continually, for ever and ever;
119:45 And I will walk at liberty, for I have sought thy
 precepts;
119:46 And I will speak of thy testimonies before kings, and
 will not be ashamed;
119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I
 have loved;
119:48 And I will lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which
 I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes.
119:49 ZAIN. Remember the word for thy servant, upon which thou
 hast caused me to hope.
119:50 This is my comfort in mine affliction; for thy ∙word hath
 quickened me.
119:51 The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not
 declined from thy law.
119:52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, and have
 comforted myself.
119:53 Burning indignation hath taken hold upon me because of
 the wicked who forsake thy law.
119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my
 pilgrimage.
119:55 I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, and
 have kept thy law.
119:56 This I have had, because I have observed thy precepts.
119:57 CHETH. My portion, O Jehovah, I have said, is to keep thy
 words.
119:58 I have sought thy favour with [my] whole heart: be
 gracious unto me according to thy ∙word.
119:59 I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy
 testimonies.
119:60 I have made haste, and not delayed, to keep thy
 commandments.
119:61 The bands of the wicked have wrapped me round: I have not
 forgotten thy law.
119:62 At midnight I rise up to give thanks unto thee, because
 of thy righteous judgments.
119:63 I am the companion of all that fear thee, and of them
 that keep thy precepts.
119:64 The earth, O Jehovah, is full of thy loving-kindness:
 teach me thy statutes.
119:65 TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Jehovah,
 according to thy word.
119:66 Teach me good discernment and knowledge; for I have
 believed in thy commandments.
119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy
 ∙word.
119:68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
119:69 The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will
 observe thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in
 thy law.
119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I
 might learn thy statutes.
119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of
 gold and silver.
119:73 YOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me
 understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.
119:74 They that fear thee will see me, and rejoice; because I
 have hoped in thy word.
119:75 I know, Jehovah, that thy Judgments are righteousness,
 and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
119:76 Oh let thy loving-kindness be for my comfort, according
 to thy ∙word unto thy servant.
119:77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for
 thy law is my delight.
119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely
 towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy
 precepts.
119:79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that
 know thy testimonies.
119:80 Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes, that I be not
 ashamed.
119:81 CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy
 word.
119:82 Mine eyes fail for thy ∙word, saying, When wilt thou
 comfort me?
119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; I do not
 forget thy statutes.
119:84 How many shall be the days of thy servant? when wilt thou
 execute judgment on them that persecute me?
119:85 The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according
 to thy law.
119:86 All thy commandments are faithfulness. They persecute me
 wrongfully: help thou me.
119:87 They had almost consumed me upon the earth; but as for
 me, I forsook not thy precepts.
119:88 Quicken me according to thy loving-kindness, and I will
 keep the testimony of thy mouth.
119:89 LAMED. For ever, O Jehovah, thy word is settled in the
 heavens.
119:90 Thy faithfulness is from generation to generation: thou
 hast established the earth, and it standeth.
119:91 By thine ordinances they stand this day; for all things
 are thy servants.
119:92 Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have
 perished in mine affliction.
119:93 I will never forget thy precepts; for by them thou hast
 quickened me.
119:94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
119:95 The wicked have awaited me to destroy me; [but] I attend
 unto thy testimonies.
119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is
 exceeding broad.
119:97 MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the
 day.
119:98 Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for
 they are ever with me.
119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy
 testimonies are my meditation.
119:100 I understand more than the aged, because I have observed
 thy precepts.
119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil path, that I
 might keep thy word.
119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments; for it is thou
 that hast taught me.
119:103 How sweet are thy ∙words unto my taste! more than honey
 to my mouth!
119:104 From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate
 every false path.
119:105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto
 my path.
119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep
 thy righteous judgments.
119:107 I am afflicted very much; O Jehovah, quicken me
 according to thy word.
119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, Jehovah, the voluntary-offerings
 of my mouth, and teach me thy judgments.
119:109 My life is continually in my hand; but I do not forget
 thy law.
119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me; but I have not
 wandered from thy precepts.
119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; for
 they are the rejoicing of my heart.
119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes for
 ever, unto the end.
119:113 SAMECH. The double-minded have I hated; but thy law do I
 love.
119:114 Thou art my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in thy
 word.
119:115 Depart from me, ye evil-doers; and I will observe the
 commandments of my God.
119:116 Uphold me according to thy ∙word, that I may live; and
 let me not be ashamed of my hope.
119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe; and I will have
 respect unto thy statutes continually.
119:118 Thou hast set at nought all them that wander from thy
 statutes; for their deceit is falsehood.
119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like]
 dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.
119:120 My flesh shuddereth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of
 thy judgments.
119:121 AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to
 mine oppressors.
119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the proud
 oppress me.
119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the ∙word of
 thy righteousness.
119:124 Deal with thy servant according to thy loving-kindness,
 and teach me thy statutes.
119:125 I am thy servant; give me understanding that I may know
 thy testimonies.
119:126 It is time for Jehovah to work: they have made void thy
 law.
119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above
 fine gold.
119:128 Therefore I regard all [thy] precepts concerning all
 things to be right: I hate every false path.
119:129 PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my
 soul observe them.
119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light, giving
 understanding unto the simple.
119:131 I opened my mouth wide and panted; for I longed for thy
 commandments.
119:132 Turn unto me, and be gracious unto me, as thou art wont
 to do unto those that love thy name.
119:133 Establish my steps in thy ∙word; and let not any
 iniquity have dominion over me.
119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man; and I will keep
 thy precepts.
119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant, and teach me
 thy statutes.
119:136 Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they
 keep not thy law.
119:137 TZADE. Righteous art thou, Jehovah, and upright are thy
 judgments.
119:138 Thou hast commanded thy testimonies in righteousness and
 exceeding faithfulness.
119:139 My zeal destroyeth me, because mine oppressors have
 forgotten thy words.
119:140 Thy ∙word is exceeding pure, and thy servant loveth it.
119:141 I am little and despised: thy precepts have I not
 forgotten.
119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and
 thy law is truth.
119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy
 commandments are my delights.
119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is for ever: give
 me understanding, and I shall live.
119:145 KOPH. I have called with [my] whole heart; answer me, O
 Jehovah: I will observe thy statutes.
119:146 I call upon thee; save me, and I will keep thy
 testimonies.
119:147 I anticipate the morning-dawn and I cry: I hope in thy
 word.
119:148 Mine eyes anticipate the night-watches, that I may
 meditate in thy ∙word.
119:149 Hear my voice according to thy loving-kindness: O
 Jehovah, quicken me according to thy judgment.
119:150 They have drawn nigh that follow after mischief: they
 are far from thy law.
119:151 Thou, Jehovah, art near, and all thy commandments are
 truth.
119:152 From thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast
 founded them for ever.
119:153 RESH. See mine affliction, and deliver me; for I have
 not forgotten thy law.
119:154 Plead my cause, and redeem me: quicken me according to
 thy ∙word.
119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked; for they seek not thy
 statutes.
119:156 Many are thy tender mercies, O Jehovah; quicken me
 according to thy judgments.
119:157 Many are my persecutors and mine oppressors; I have not
 declined from thy testimonies.
119:158 I beheld them that deal treacherously, and was grieved;
 because they kept not thy ∙word.
119:159 See how I have loved thy precepts: quicken me, O
 Jehovah, according to thy loving-kindness.
119:160 The sum of thy word is truth, and every righteous
 judgment of thine is for ever.
119:161 SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my
 heart standeth in awe of thy word.
119:162 I have joy in thy ∙word, as one that findeth great
 spoil.
119:163 I hate and abhor falsehood; thy law do I love.
119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy
 righteous judgments.
119:165 Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing
 doth stumble them.
119:166 I have hoped for thy salvation, O Jehovah, and have done
 thy commandments.
119:167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them
 exceedingly.
119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies; for all my
 ways are before thee.
119:169 TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, Jehovah: give me
 understanding according to thy word.
119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me
 according to thy ∙word.
119:171 My lips shall pour forth praise when thou hast taught me
 thy statutes.
119:172 My tongue shall speak aloud of thy ∙word; for all thy
 commandments are righteousness.
119:173 Let thy hand be for my help; for I have chosen thy
 precepts.
119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah, and thy law
 is my delight.
119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy
 judgments help me.
119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant;
 for I have not forgotten thy commandments.
120:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> In my trouble I called unto Jehovah,
 and he answered me.
120:2 Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the
 deceitful tongue.
120:3 What shall be given unto thee, what shall be added unto
 thee, thou deceitful tongue?
120:4 Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with burning coals of
 broom-wood.
120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among
 the tents of Kedar!
120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with them that hate peace.
120:7 I [am for] peace; but when I speak, *they* [are] for war.
121:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> I lift up mine eyes unto the
 mountains: whence shall my help come?
121:2 My help [cometh] from Jehovah, who made the heavens and
 the earth.
121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; he that keepeth
 thee will not slumber.
121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor
 sleep.
121:5 Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right
 hand;
121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by
 night.
121:7 Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; he will keep thy
 soul.
121:8 Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from
 henceforth and for evermore.
122:1 <<A Song of degrees. Of David.>> I rejoiced when they said
 unto me, Let us go into the house of Jehovah.
122:2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
122:3 Jerusalem, which art built as a city that is compact
 together,
122:4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of Jah, a testimony
 to Israel, to give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.
122:5 For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of the
 house of David.
122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that
 love thee.
122:7 Peace be within thy bulwarks, prosperity within thy
 palaces.
122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes I will say, Peace be
 within thee!
122:9 Because of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy
 good.
123:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O
 thou that dwellest in the heavens.
123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of
 their masters, as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her
 mistress, so our eyes [are directed] to Jehovah our God, until
 he be gracious unto us.
123:3 Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for
 we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those
 that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
124:1 <<A Song of degrees. Of David.>> If it had not been Jehovah
 who was for us -- oh let Israel say --
124:2 If it had not been Jehovah who was for us, when men rose
 up against us,
124:3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was
 kindled against us;
124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent had gone
 over our soul;
124:5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
124:6 Blessed be Jehovah, who gave us not up a prey to their
 teeth!
124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the
 fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
124:8 Our help is in the name of Jehovah, the maker of heavens
 and earth.
125:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> They that confide in Jehovah are as
 mount Zion, which cannot be moved; it abideth for ever.
125:2 Jerusalem! -- mountains are round about her, and Jehovah
 is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore.
125:3 For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot
 of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto
 iniquity.
125:4 Do good, O Jehovah, unto the good, and to them that are
 upright in their hearts.
125:5 But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways,
 Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity.
 Peace be upon Israel!
126:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> When Jehovah turned the captivity of
 Zion, we were like them that dream.
126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue
 with rejoicing: then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath
 done great things for them.
126:3 Jehovah hath done great things for us; [and] we are
 joyful.
126:4 Turn our captivity, O Jehovah, as the streams in the
 south.
126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing:
126:6 He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering;
 he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves.
127:1 <<A Song of degrees. Of Solomon.>> Unless Jehovah build the
 house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah
 keep the city, the keeper watcheth in vain:
127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to
 eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth
 sleep.
127:3 Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the
 fruit of the womb a reward.
127:4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children
 of youth.
127:5 Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them.
 They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the
 gate.
128:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Blessed is every one that feareth
 Jehovah, that walketh in his ways.
128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt
 thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of
 thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy
 table.
128:4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth
 Jehovah.
128:5 Jehovah will bless thee out of Zion; and mayest thou see
 the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life,
128:6 And see thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel!
129:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Many a time have they afflicted me
 from my youth -- oh let Israel say --
129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they
 have not prevailed against me.
129:3 The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their
 furrows.
129:4 Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
 wicked.
129:5 Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate
 Zion;
129:6 Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which
 withereth before it is plucked up,
129:7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that
 bindeth sheaves his bosom;
129:8 Neither do the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be
 upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah!
130:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Out of the depths do I call upon
 thee, Jehovah.
130:2 Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the
 voice of my supplication.
130:3 If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall
 stand?
130:4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be
 feared.
130:5 I wait for Jehovah; my soul doth wait, and in his word do
 I hope.
130:6 My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than the watchers
 [wait] for the morning, [more than] the watchers for the
 morning.
130:7 Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is
 loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption;
130:8 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
131:1 <<A Song of degrees. Of David.>> Jehovah, my heart is not
 haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in
 great matters, and in things too wonderful for me.
131:2 Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a
 weaned child with its mother: my soul within me is as a weaned
 child.
131:3 Let Israel hope in Jehovah, from henceforth and for
 evermore.
132:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Jehovah, remember for David all his
 affliction;
132:2 How he swore unto Jehovah, vowed unto the Mighty One of
 Jacob:
132:3 I will not come into the tent of my house, I will not go
 up to the couch of my bed;
132:4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine
 eyelids,
132:5 Until I find out a place for Jehovah, habitations for the
 Mighty One of Jacob. ...
132:6 Behold, we heard of it at Ephratah, we found it in the
 fields of the wood.
132:7 Let us go into his habitations, let us worship at his
 footstool.
132:8 Arise, Jehovah, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy
 strength.
132:9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy
 saints shout for joy.
132:10 For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of
 thine anointed.
132:11 Jehovah hath sworn [in] truth unto David; he will not
 turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy
 throne;
132:12 If thy children keep my covenant, and my testimonies
 which I will teach them, their children also for evermore shall
 sit upon thy throne.
132:13 For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his
 dwelling:
132:14 This is my rest for ever; here will I dwell, for I have
 desired it.
132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her
 needy ones with bread;
132:16 And I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her
 saints shall shout aloud for joy.
132:17 There will I cause the horn of David to bud forth; I have
 ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame; but upon himself
 shall his crown flourish.
133:1 <<A Song of degrees. Of David.>> Behold, how good and how
 pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
133:2 Like the precious oil upon the head, that ran down upon
 the beard, upon Aaron's beard, that ran down to the hem of his
 garments;
133:3 As the dew of Hermon that descendeth on the mountains of
 Zion; for there hath Jehovah commanded the blessing, life for
 evermore.
134:1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Behold, bless Jehovah, all ye
 servants of Jehovah, who by night stand in the house of
 Jehovah.
134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.
134:3 Jehovah, the maker of heavens and earth, bless thee out of
 Zion.
135:1 Hallelujah! Praise the name of Jehovah; praise, ye
 servants of Jehovah,
135:2 Ye that stand in the house of Jehovah, in the courts of
 the house of our God.
135:3 Praise ye Jah; for Jehovah is good: sing psalms unto his
 name; for it is pleasant.
135:4 For Jah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, Israel for his own
 possession.
135:5 For *I* know that Jehovah is great, and our Lord is above
 all gods.
135:6 Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, he hath done in the heavens
 and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps;
135:7 Who causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the
 earth; who maketh lightnings for the rain; who bringeth the
 wind out of his treasuries:
135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast;
135:9 Who sent signs and miracles into the midst of thee, O
 Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants;
135:10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings,
135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and
 all the kingdoms of Canaan;
135:12 And gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance
 unto Israel his people.
135:13 Thy name, O Jehovah, is for ever; thy memorial, O
 Jehovah, from generation to generation.
135:14 For Jehovah will judge his people, and will repent in
 favour of his servants.
135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of
 men's hands:
135:16 They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they,
 and they see not;
135:17 They have ears, and they hear not; neither is there any
 breath in their mouth.
135:18 They that make them are like unto them, -- every one that
 confideth in them.
135:19 House of Israel, bless ye Jehovah; house of Aaron, bless
 ye Jehovah;
135:20 House of Levi, bless ye Jehovah; ye that fear Jehovah,
 bless Jehovah.
135:21 Blessed be Jehovah out of Zion, who dwelleth at
 Jerusalem! Hallelujah!
136:1 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, for he is good; for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:
136:2 Give thanks unto the God of gods, for his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever;
136:3 Give thanks unto the Lord of lords, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
136:4 To him who alone doeth great wonders, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:
136:5 To him that by understanding made the heavens, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;
136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters, for
 his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;
136:7 To him that made great lights, for his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever;
136:8 The sun for rule over the day, for his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever,
136:9 The moon and stars for rule over the night, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:
136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,
136:11 And brought out Israel from among them, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,
136:12 With a powerful hand and with a stretched-out arm, for
 his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;
136:13 To him that divided the Red sea into parts, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,
136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,
136:15 And overturned Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea, for
 his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;
136:16 To him that led his people through the wilderness, for
 his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;
136:17 To him that smote great kings, for his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever,
136:18 And slew famous kings, for his loving-kindness [endureth]
 for ever;
136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever,
136:20 And Og king of Bashan, for his loving-kindness [endureth]
 for ever;
136:21 And gave their land for an inheritance, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,
136:22 An inheritance unto Israel his servant, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:
136:23 Who hath remembered us in our low estate, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;
136:24 And hath delivered us from our oppressors, for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever:
136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh, for his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever.
136:26 Give ye thanks unto the ∙God of the heavens; for his
 loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept
 when we remembered Zion.
137:2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
137:3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us
 a song; and they that made us wail [required] mirth, [saying,]
 Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.
137:4 How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign
 soil?
137:5 If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its
 skill];
137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my
 palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
137:7 Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of
 Jerusalem; who said, Lay [it] bare, Lay [it] bare, down to its
 foundation!
137:8 Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he
 that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.
137:9 Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against
 the rock.
138:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> I will give thee thanks with my
 whole heart; before the gods will I sing psalms of thee.
138:2 I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and
 celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth;
 for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
138:3 In the day when I called thou answeredst me; thou didst
 encourage me with strength in my soul.
138:4 All the kings of the earth shall celebrate thee, Jehovah,
 when they have heard the words of thy mouth;
138:5 And they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah, for great is
 the glory of Jehovah.
138:6 For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and
 the proud he knoweth afar off.
138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive
 me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the anger of mine
 enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
138:8 Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me: thy
 loving-kindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; forsake not
 the works of thine own hands.
139:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> Jehovah, thou
 hast searched me, and known [me].
139:2 *Thou* knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou
 understandest my thought afar off;
139:3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art
 acquainted with all my ways;
139:4 For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O
 Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
139:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand
 upon me.
139:6 O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot
 [attain] unto it.
139:7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from
 thy presence?
139:8 If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I
 make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];
139:9 [If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the
 uttermost parts of the sea,
139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand
 shall hold me.
139:11 And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the
 light about me be night;
139:12 Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth
 as the day: the darkness is as the light.
139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in
 my mother's womb.
139:14 I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made.
 Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right
 well.
139:15 My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in
 secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
139:16 Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book
 all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they
 fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.
139:17 But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O ∙God! how
 great is the sum of them!
139:18 [If] I would count them, they are more in number than the
 sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
139:19 Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O +God! And ye men
 of blood, depart from me.
139:20 For they speak of thee wickedly, they take [thy name] in
 vain, thine enemies.
139:21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not
 I loathe them that rise up against thee?
139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine
 enemies.
139:23 Search me, O ∙God, and know my heart; prove me, and know
 my thoughts;
139:24 And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me
 in the way everlasting.
140:1 <<To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.>> Free me, O
 Jehovah, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man:
140:2 Who devise mischiefs in [their] heart; every day are they
 banded together for war.
140:3 They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison
 is under their lips. Selah.
140:4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked [man],
 preserve me from the violent man, who devise to overthrow my
 steps.
140:5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have
 spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me.
 Selah.
140:6 I have said unto Jehovah, Thou art my ∙God: give ear, O
 Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.
140:7 Jehovah, the Lord, is the strength of my salvation: thou
 hast covered my head in the day of battle.
140:8 Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further
 not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah.
140:9 [As for] the head of those that encompass me, let the
 mischief of their own lips cover them.
140:10 Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the
 fire; into deep waters, that they rise not up again.
140:11 Let not the man of [evil] tongue be established in the
 earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to [his] ruin.
140:12 I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the
 afflicted one, the right of the needy.
140:13 Yea, the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name; the
 upright shall dwell in thy presence.
141:1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make
 haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the
 lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.
141:3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of
 my lips.
141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds
 of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me
 not eat of their dainties.
141:5 Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him
 reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not
 refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their
 calamities.
141:6 When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they
 shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
141:7 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one
 cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
141:8 For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes; in thee do I
 trust: leave not my soul destitute.
141:9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and
 from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that *I*
 withal pass over.
142:1 <<An instruction of David; when he was in the cave: a
 prayer.>> I cry unto Jehovah with my voice: with my voice unto
 Jehovah do I make supplication.
142:2 I pour out my plaint before him; I shew before him my
 trouble.
142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then *thou*
 knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a
 snare for me.
142:4 Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that
 knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.
142:5 I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my
 portion in the land of the living.
142:6 Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me
 from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.
142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may celebrate thy
 name. The righteous shall surround me, because thou dealest
 bountifully with me.
143:1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to
 my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy
 righteousness.
143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy
 sight no man living shall be justified.
143:3 For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life
 down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as
 those that have been long dead.
143:4 And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me
 is desolate.
143:5 I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy doing; I
 muse on the work of thy hands.
143:6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched
 land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah.
143:7 Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not
 thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down
 into the pit.
143:8 Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning, for
 in thee do I confide; make me to know the way wherein I should
 walk, for unto thee do I lift up my soul.
143:9 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies: unto thee do I
 flee for refuge.
143:10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: let thy
 good Spirit lead me in a plain country.
143:11 Revive me, O Jehovah, for thy name's sake; in thy
 righteousness bring my soul out of trouble;
143:12 And in thy loving-kindness cut off mine enemies, and
 destroy all them that oppress my soul: for I am thy servant.
144:1 <<[A Psalm] of David.>> Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who
 teacheth my hands to war, my fingers to fight;
144:2 My mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer,
 my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under
 me!
144:3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him,
 the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?
144:4 Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that
 passeth away.
144:5 Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the
 mountains, that they smoke;
144:6 Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine
 arrows, and discomfit them:
144:7 Stretch out thy hands from above; rescue me, and deliver
 me out of great waters, from the hand of aliens,
144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a
 right hand of falsehood.
144:9 O God, I will sing a new song unto thee; with the
 ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms unto thee:
144:10 Who givest salvation unto kings; who rescuest David thy
 servant from the hurtful sword.
144:11 Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose
 mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of
 falsehood.
144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;
 our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion
 of a palace:
144:13 Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our
 sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures;
144:14 Our kine laden [with young]; no breaking in and no going
 forth, and no outcry in our streets.
144:15 Blessed the people that is in such a case! Blessed the
 people whose God is Jehovah!
145:1 <<A Psalm of praise. Of David.>> I will extol thee, my God,
 O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
145:2 Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name
 for ever and ever.
145:3 Great is Jehovah, and exceedingly to be praised; and his
 greatness is unsearchable.
145:4 One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall
 declare thy mighty acts.
145:5 I will speak of the glorious splendour of thy majesty, and
 of thy wondrous works.
145:6 And they shall tell of the might of thy terrible acts; and
 thy great deeds will I declare.
145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great
 goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
145:8 Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of
 great loving-kindness.
145:9 Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over
 all his works.
145:10 All thy works shall praise thee, Jehovah, and thy saints
 shall bless thee.
145:11 They shall tell of the glory of thy kingdom, and speak of
 thy power;
145:12 To make known to the children of men his mighty acts, and
 the glorious splendour of his kingdom.
145:13 Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages, and thy dominion is
 throughout all generations.
145:14 Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that
 are bowed down.
145:15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them
 their food in its season.
145:16 Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every
 living thing.
145:17 Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his
 works.
145:18 Jehovah is nigh unto all that call upon him, unto all
 that call upon him in truth.
145:19 He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him; he
 heareth their cry, and saveth them.
145:20 Jehovah keepeth all that love him, and all the wicked
 will he destroy.
145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; and let all
 flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
146:1 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
146:2 As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing
 psalms unto my God while I have my being.
146:3 Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom
 there is no salvation.
146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that
 very day his purposes perish.
146:5 Blessed is he who hath the ∙God of Jacob for his help,
 whose hope is in Jehovah his God,
146:6 Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that
 is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;
146:7 Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread
 to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;
146:8 Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth
 up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;
146:9 Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the
 fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he
 subvert.
146:10 Jehovah will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, from
 generation to generation. Hallelujah!
147:1 Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of our God; for
 it is pleasant: praise is comely.
147:2 Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts
 of Israel.
147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their
 wounds.
147:4 He counteth the number of the stars; he giveth names to
 them all.
147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding
 is infinite.
147:6 Jehovah lifteth up the meek; he abaseth the wicked to the
 earth.
147:7 Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving; sing psalms upon the
 harp unto our God:
147:8 Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain
 for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;
147:9 Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens
 which cry.
147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse, he taketh
 not pleasure in the legs of a man;
147:11 Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him, in those
 that hope in his loving-kindness.
147:12 Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
147:13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath
 blessed thy children within thee;
147:14 He maketh peace in thy borders; he satisfieth thee with
 the finest of the wheat.
147:15 He sendeth forth his oracles to the earth: his word
 runneth very swiftly.
147:16 He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like
 ashes;
147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand
 before his cold?
147:18 He sendeth his word, and melteth them; he causeth his
 wind to blow -- the waters flow.
147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his
 judgments unto Israel.
147:20 He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for [his]
 judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!
148:1 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah from the heavens; praise him in
 the heights.
148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his
 hosts.
148:3 Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all ye stars of
 light.
148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are
 above the heavens.
148:5 Let them praise the name of Jehovah, for he it is that
 commanded, and they were created:
148:6 And he established them for ever and ever; he made [for
 them] a statute which shall not pass.
148:7 Praise Jehovah from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all
 deeps;
148:8 Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his
 word;
148:9 Mountains and all hills, fruit-trees and all cedars;
148:10 Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl;
148:11 Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all
 judges of the earth;
148:12 Both young men and maidens, old men with youths, --
148:13 Let them praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone
 is exalted; his majesty is above the earth and the heavens.
148:14 And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, the praise
 of all his saints, [even] of the children of Israel, a people
 near unto him. Hallelujah!
149:1 Hallelujah! Sing unto Jehovah a new song; [sing] his
 praise in the congregation of the godly.
149:2 Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the sons of Zion be
 joyful in their King.
149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing
 psalms unto him with the tambour and harp.
149:4 For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people; he beautifieth
 the meek with salvation.
149:5 Let the godly exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon
 their beds.
149:6 Let the high praises of ∙God be in their mouth, and a
 two-edged sword in their hand:
149:7 To execute vengeance against the nations, [and] punishment
 among the peoples;
149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with
 fetters of iron;
149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written. This honour
 have all his saints. Hallelujah!
150:1 Hallelujah! Praise ∙God in his sanctuary; praise him in
 the firmament of his power.
150:2 Praise him in his mighty acts; praise him according to the
 abundance of his greatness.
150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with
 lute and harp;
150:4 Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with
 stringed instruments and the pipe;
150:5 Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with high
 sounding cymbals.
150:6 Let everything that hath breath praise Jah. Hallelujah!