¹Blessed is the man who does not walk in the way of the ungodly, nor stays in the counsel of sinners, nor sits in the company of mockers;
²but his delight is in the law of Yahvah, and on his law he meditates day and night.

³And he will be like a tree planted by a stream of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaves do not fall off; and whatever he begins he accomplishes.
⁴The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵Therefore the ungodly will not be justified in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶for Yahvah knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly will perish.

¹Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples imagine vain things?
²The kings of the land and the rulers have conspired and have taken counsel together against Yahvah and against his anointed saying,
³Let us break their bands apart, and let us cast away their yoke from us.

⁴He that lives in the skies will laugh, and master will mock at them.
⁵Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath and say,
⁶I have appointed my king over Zion, my holy mountain.

⁷To declare my promise; Yahvah has said to me, You are my son; this day, I have borne you.
⁸Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance and the uttermost parts of the land for your dominion.
⁹You will shepherd them with a rod of iron; you will break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹⁰Be wise now kings; be instructed judges of the land.
¹¹Serve Yahvah with reverence, and uphold him with trembling.
¹²Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish from his way, while his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in him.

¹Yahvah, how my oppressors are increased. Many are those who rise up against me.
²Many there are that say to my soul, You have no salvation in your god.

³But you, Yahvah, are my help and my glory, and the lifter of my head.
⁴I have cried to Yahvah with my voice, and he has answered me from his holy mountain.

⁵I lay down and slept; and I awoke; for Yahvah sustained me.
⁶I will not be afraid of 1,000s of people that have surrounded me and set themselves against me.

⁷Arise, Yahvah my god, and save me; for you struck all my enemies on their cheeks; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

⁸For salvation belongs to Yahvah; and your blessing is on your people.

¹When I have called you, you have answered me, my god and savior of my righteousness; you have comforted me when I was in distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

²Men, how long will you obscure my glory? How long will you love vanity? Do you want deception forever?
³But know that Yahvah has set apart for himself him who is wonderful; Yahvah will hear when I call to him.

⁴Be angry yet do not sin; commune with your own heart and meditate on your bed.
⁵Offer the sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust in Yahvah.

⁶There are many that say, Who can show us a good man so that he may shine on us the light of his countenance?
⁷Yahvah, you have put gladness in my heart more than in the time that their wheat and their wine and their oil increased.

⁸In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you, Yahvah, alone, make me live in safety.

¹Give ear to my words, Yahvah, and consider my meditation.
²Listen to the voice of my cry, my king and my god; for to you I pray.
³My voice you will hear in the morning, Yahvah; and in the morning, I will prepare myself and see you.

⁴For you are not a god that has pleasure in wickedness; nor will evil live with you.
⁵The proud will not stand in your sight; you hate all workers of iniquity.
⁶You will destroy those who speak falsehood; Yahvah will reject the bloody and deceitful man.

⁷But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy; and I will enter into your house and worship in your holy house.
⁸Lead me, Yahvah, in your reverence and righteousness; and because of my enemies, make your way straight before my face.

⁹For there is no justice in their mouth; there is wickedness in them; their throat is an open sepulcher; they deceive with their tongues.
¹⁰Condemn them, god; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their wickedness, for they have provoked you.

¹¹But let all those who put their trust in you rejoice; they will glorify you forever, and you will live among them; and all those who love your name will be strengthened by you.
¹²For you will bless the righteous; Yahvah, you have adorned me like a perfect shield.

¹Yahvah, do not rebuke me in your anger, nor chasten me in your hot displeasure.
²Have mercy on me, Yahvah, for I am weak; Yahvah, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
³My soul is also troubled exceedingly. Yahvah, how long?

⁴Return, Yahvah, and deliver my soul: save me for your mercies' sake.
⁵For in death there is no remembrance of you; in the grave, who will give you thanks?

⁶I am weary with my groaning; and every night I water my bed and wash my mattress with my tears.
⁷My eye is weakened because of anger; and I am troubled by all my enemies.

⁸Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for Yahvah has heard the voice of my weeping.
⁹Yahvah has heard my supplication; Yahvah has received my prayer.
¹⁰Let all my enemies be ashamed and defeated; let them turn back and be destroyed suddenly.

¹Yahvah my god, in you I put my trust; save me; from all those who persecute me, deliver me,
²lest my soul be torn as by a lion, and there is no one to save me and to deliver me.

³Yahvah my god, if I have done this thing and if there be iniquity in my hands,
⁴if I have been vengeful to him who has done me evil, and if I have oppressed my enemies without a cause;
⁵let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, yes, let him tread down my life on the land and lay my honor in the dust.

⁶Arise, Yahvah, in your anger, lift yourself up over the neck of my enemies; and make me alert in the judgment that you have commanded.
⁷Let the congregation of the peoples circle about you; and for their sakes, therefore return on high.

⁸Yahvah will judge the people; judge me, Yahvah, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
⁹Let the evil of the wicked come to an end; and establish the righteous, searcher of hearts and souls.
¹⁰God who saves the upright in heart, righteous god, help me.
¹¹God is a righteous judge; yes, he is not angry every day.

¹²If he does not turn from his anger, he will sharpen his sword and bend his bow and make it ready.
¹³He has also prepared for himself the instruments of wrath; he pointed his arrows against the persecutor.
¹⁴Because the wicked has become corrupt and has conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood,
¹⁵he has made a well, and deepened it, and is fallen into the pit which he made.
¹⁶His mischief will return on his own head, and his iniquity on his own pate.

¹⁷I will praise Yahvah according to my righteousness; and I will sing praise to the name of Yahvah most high.

¹Yahvah, our master, how excellent is your name in all the land. You have set your glory on the skies.
²Out of the mouth of young men and infants, you have established your glory because of your enemies, that you might destroy the enemy and the avenger.

³For your skies have seen the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
⁴what is man, that you are mindful of him? The son of man, that you visit him?

⁵For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have clothed him with glory and honor.
⁶You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
⁷all sheep and oxen, yes, and the animals of the wilderness;
⁸the bird of the air and the fish of the sea which pass through the paths of the seas.
⁹Yahvah, our master, how excellent is your name in all the land.

¹I will praise you, Yahvah, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.
²I will be glad and rejoice in you and I will sing praise to your name, most high.

³When my enemies are beaten back, they will stumble and perish before your presence.
⁴For you have maintained my right and my cause; you have sat on the throne, righteous judge.

⁵You have rebuked the Gentiles and you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶My enemies have been annihilated by the sword forever; and you have destroyed the villages and their very memory has perished.

⁷But Yahvah will endure forever; he has prepared his throne for judgment.
⁸And he will judge the world in righteousness and the people in uprightness.

⁹Yahvah will also be a refuge for the poor, a refuge in times of trouble.
¹⁰And those who know your name will put their trust in you; for you have not forsaken those who seek you, Yahvah.

¹¹Sing praises to Yahvah, who lives in Zion; declare among the people his skillful actions;
¹²for he has remembered to avenge their blood; he does not forget the cry of the poor.

¹³Have mercy on me, Yahvah, and consider my trouble which I suffer of those who hate me, who removes me from the gates of death,
¹⁴that I may declare all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made; and their foot is caught in the net which they hid.
¹⁶Yahvah makes known the judgment which he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

¹⁷The wicked will be turned into the grave, and all the peoples that forsake god.
¹⁸For the poor will not always be forgotten; and the hope of the poor will not perish forever.

¹⁹Arise, Yahvah; do not let man prevail; let the Gentiles be judged in your sight.
²⁰Appoint for them a lawgiver, that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.

¹Why do you stand far off, Yahvah? Witholding your care in times of trouble?
²The pride of the wicked makes the poor to suffer; let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
³For the ungodly boasts of his own desire, and Yahvah is angry when the wicked is blessed.
⁴The wicked in the pride of his countenance will not seek after god; and there is no god in all his thoughts.
⁵His ways are always weak; your judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he despises them.
⁶He says in his heart, I will not be moved from generation to generation; for he conceives evil.
⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and deceit.
⁸He sits in the lurking place of a den; and in a secret place does he murder the innocent; his eyes spy on the destitute.
⁹He lies in wait to snare the poor by drawing him into his net.
¹⁰He will be humbled and overthrown, and in his bones there will be sickness and pain.
¹¹He says in his heart, god has forgotten; he has turned away his face; he will never see it.

¹²Arise, Yahvah; my god, lift up your hand; do not forget the afflicted.
¹³Why does the wicked provoke god? He says in his heart, god does not seek vengeance.
¹⁴You have seen it; for there is mischief and wrath, for you see that he has surrendered himself to your hands; and the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until you find none.

¹⁶Yahvah is king forever and ever; the Gentiles are perished out of his land.
¹⁷Yahvah, you have heard the desire of the poor; your ear has heard the preparation of their heart;
¹⁸execute justice to the fatherless and to the afflicted, so that man may not be destroyed from the face of the land.

¹In Yahvah I put my trust; how do you say to me, Flee as a bird to the mountains?
²For look, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow on the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.
³For if they have destroyed the foundations which Yahvah has prepared, what can the righteous do?

⁴Yahvah is in his holy house, Yahvah's throne is in the skies; his eyes look, his eyelids examine, the sons of men.
⁵Yahvah tries the righteous and the wicked; but his soul hates him who loves violence.
⁶Snares have come down on the wicked like rain; fire and brimstone and a destructive tempest will be the portion of their cup.
⁷For Yahvah is righteous, and he loves righteousness; his countenance beholds the upright.

¹Save, Yahvah; for the godly man ceases; for faith has disappeared from the land.
²Men speak vanity, everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speak.

³Yahvah will destroy all flattering lips and tongues that speak proud things.
⁴For they have said, With our tongue we will prevail: our lips are our own; who is sovereign over us?

⁵Because of the oppression of the poor and the groans of the needy, now I will arise says Yahvah; and I will bring salvation openly.
⁶The words of Yahvah are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace on land, they are purified 7 times.

⁷You will keep them, Yahvah; you will preserve me and save me from this generation forever.
⁸For the wicked walk everywhere with contemptible pride, like the sons of Edom.

¹How long, Yahvah, will you forsake me? Forever? How long will you turn away your face from me?
²How long will I keep sorrow in my soul and misery in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

³Consider and hear me, Yahvah my god; lighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
⁴lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, and those who trouble me rejoice when I am shaken.

⁵But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart will rejoice in your salvation.
⁶I will sing to Yahvah, because he has saved me.

¹The fool has said in his heart, There is no god. They are corrupt, they have been defiled by their own devices; there is no one who does good.

²Yahvah looked down from the skies on the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood and sought god.

³They have all gone astray and have been rejected all together; there is no one who does good; no, not one.

⁴They did not recognize the workers of iniquity, who devour my people as one eats bread; and they did not call on Yahvah.

⁵There were they in great fear; for god is in the generation of the righteous.

⁶They have disgraced the counsel of the poor, because he trusts on Yahvah.

⁷Who will give out of Zion the salvation to Israel? When Yahvah brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad.

¹Yahvah, who will live in your tent? Who will inhabit your holy mountain?
²He that walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks the truth in his heart.
³He that does not deceive with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor accepts a bribe from his neighbor;
⁴in whose eyes a detestable person is despised; but he honors those who worship Yahvah; he that swears to his neighbor and does not lie;
⁵he that does not lend out his money with interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He that does these things is upright and will never be moved.

¹Preserve me, god; for in you I put my trust.
²I have said to Yahvah, You are my master, and my goodness comes from you.

³I said it also to the saints that are on the land, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

⁴The sorrows of the wicked will be multiplied in rapid succession, that I may not pour out their libations of blood; nor will I mention their names with my lips.

⁵Yahvah is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; you will restore my inheritance.
⁶My portion of the land fell to me in attractive places; yes, I have been pleased with my heritage.

⁷I will bless Yahvah, for he has given me counsel; my intuition also guides me during the night.
⁸I have set Yahvah always before me; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh will also rest in hope.
¹⁰For you have not left my soul in the grave; nor have you permitted your holy one to see corruption.

¹¹You will show me the path of life, and I will be filled with the joy of your countenance, with the pleasure of victory of your right hand.

¹Hear, holy Yahvah, and consider my supplication; give ear to my prayer that does not proceed out of deceitful lips.
²Let my judgment come out from your presence; let your eyes see the things that are just.

³You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and you have not found iniquity in me; nothing has come out of my mouth which is according to the deceitful works of men.
⁴Through the conversation of my lips you have kept me from evil ways.
⁵You have strengthened my walk in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

⁶I have called on you, for you have heard me. God, incline your ear to me and hear my words.
⁷Make your holy one a wonder and a savior to those who trust; but let him prevail against those who rise up against your right hand.

⁸Keep me as the apple of your eye; protect me under the shadow of your wings,
⁹from the sinners who plunder me, from the enemies of my soul who surround me.
¹⁰Silence their mouth, for they have spoken vanity.
¹¹They have praised me, and now have surrounded me; they have determined to bury me in the ground.
¹²They are like a lion that is eager to prey, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

¹³Arise, Yahvah, humble them; cast them down; deliver my soul from the wicked and from the sword,
¹⁴from the dead that die by your hand, Yahvah; and from the dead of the grave, divide their possessions among the living; fill their belly with your treasure, so that their sons are satisfied and have a portion remaining for their own sons.

¹⁵As for me, I will look at your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied when your worship is revived.

¹I will love you, Yahvah, my strength and my trust;
²my refuge and my deliverer is the mighty god in whom I trust; he is my helper and the horn of my salvation and my glorious refuge.
³I will call on Yahvah; so I will be saved from my enemies.

⁴For the pains of death surrounded me, and the rush of ungodly men has confused me.
⁵The travail of the grave has taken hold of me: the snares of death preceded me.

⁶In my distress I called on Yahvah, and cried to my god; he heard my voice out of his house, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
⁷Then the land shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains also quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
⁸There went up smoke out of his wrath, and fire flamed from his face, and coals were kindled by it.
⁹He bowed the skies and came down; and thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰And he rode on cherubim and flew; yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his cover; his pavilion around him was darkness of waters and thick clouds of the skies.
¹²Out of the brightness of his shadow, his clouds rained hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³Yahvah also thundered in the skies, and the highest gave his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
¹⁴Yes, he sent out his arrows and scattered them; and he multiplied his lightnings and confused them.
¹⁵Then the brooks appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at your rebuke, Yahvah, at the blast of the breath of your anger.

¹⁶He sent from on high and quieted me; he received me out of great waters.
¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemies and from them which hated me; for they were too strong for me.
¹⁸They confronted me in the day of my extremity, but Yahvah was my deliverer.
¹⁹He brought me forth into comfort; he delivered me because he delighted in me.

²⁰Yahvah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.
²¹For I have kept the ways of Yahvah, and have not revolted against my god.
²²For all his judgments were before me, and his laws I did not put away from me.
²³I was also blameless before him, and I carefully kept myself from my sins.
²⁴Therefore Yahvah has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyes.

²⁵With the pure, you will be pure; with an upright man, you will be upright.
²⁶With the clean, you will be clean; and from the crooked, you will turn aside.
²⁷For you will save the afflicted people; but will humble the proud.
²⁸For you will light my lamp; Yahvah my god will enlighten my darkness.
²⁹For through you, I have pursued a band of robbers; and through my god, I have lept over a fence.
³⁰As for god, his way is perfect; the word of Yahvah is pure: he is a help to all those who trust in him.

³¹For there is no god except Yahvah; and there is no one who is mighty like our god.
³²It is god that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.
³³He makes my feet like deer's feet and sets me on high places.
³⁴He trains my hands to war; and he strengthens my arms like a bow of brass.
³⁵You have also given me the shield of your salvation; and your right hand has held me up; and your discipline has made me great.
³⁶You have steadied my legs under me, that my ankles may not be weakened.
³⁷I will pursue my enemies and overtake them; and I will not turn again until they are consumed.
³⁸I will strike them so that they will not be able to stand; they will fall under my feet.
³⁹For you have girded me with strength to the battle; you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
⁴⁰You have also defeated my enemies before me, that I might silence those who hate me.
⁴¹They will cry, but there will not be anyone to save them; they will beg Yahvah, but he will not answer them.
⁴²Then I will beat them small as the dust before the wind; I will tread over them as the mire of the streets.

⁴³You will deliver me from the judgments of the people; and you will make me the leader of the Gentiles; a people whom I have not known will serve me.
⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me; strangers will submit themselves to me.
⁴⁵Strangers will halt and will be hindered from walking in their paths.

⁴⁶Yahvah lives; blessed be the one who gives me strength; let my god and my savior be exalted.
⁴⁷It is god that avenges me and subdues the people under me.
⁴⁸He delivered me from my enemies; yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me; you have delivered me from lawless men.

⁴⁹Therefore I will give thanks to you Yahvah, among the Gentiles, and sing praises to your name.
⁵⁰He gives great deliverance to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David and to his sons forever.

¹The skies declare the glory of god; and the firmament shows his handiwork.
²Day after day utters speech, and night after night shows knowledge.
³There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
⁴Their good news has gone out through all the land, and their words to the end of the world. He has set his tent in the sun, among them.
⁵And he is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
⁶His going forth is from the end of the skies, and his circuit to its ends; and there is nothing hidden from the mist of his breath.

⁷The law of Yahvah is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of Yahvah is trustworthy, making wise the young men.
⁸The statutes of Yahvah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Yahvah is pure, enlightening the eyes.
⁹The reverence of Yahvah is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of Yahvah are true and righteous altogether.
¹⁰They are more to be coveted than gold; yes, than precious stones; also sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.
¹¹Moreover, by them is your servant warned; and if he keep them, he will be greatly rewarded.

¹²Who can understand stumblings? Cleanse me from secret faults.
¹³Also, spare your servant from presumptuous sins, lest the evil ones have dominion over me; then I will be cleansed from my sins.

¹⁴Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahvah, my helper and my savior.

¹May Yahvah answer you in the day of trouble; the name of the god of Jacob defend you;
²send help from his sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion.
³Let Yahvah remember all your offerings, and make acceptable your burnt sacrifices.

⁴May Yahvah grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.
⁵We will be glorified in your salvation, and in the name of our god we will be exalted; Yahvah fulfill all your petitions.

⁶From now on, it is known that Yahvah has saved his anointed; and has heard him from his holy skies and saved with the strength of his right hand.
⁷Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will prevail through the name of Yahvah our god.
⁸They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand ready.

⁹Yahvah, save us, and let our king answer us in the day when we call on him.

¹The king will rejoice in your strength, Yahvah; and in your salvation he will greatly rejoice.
²You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.
³For you have blessed him beforehand with the blessings of goodness; you have set a precious crown on his head.
⁴He asked life of you, and you gave him it, even length of days forever and ever.
⁵His glory is great in your salvation; honor and majesty you have bestowed on him.
⁶For you have made him most blessed forever; you have made him joyful in gladness with your countenance.
⁷For the king trusts in Yahvah, and through the mercy of the most high, he will not be moved.

⁸Your hand will overcome all your enemies; your right hand will overcome those who hate you.
⁹You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your wrath; Yahvah will consume them in his wrath, and the fire will devour them.
¹⁰You will destroy their fruit from the land, and their offspring from among the sons of men.
¹¹For they have planned evil against you; they conceived a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
¹²For you will place a scar on them; and you will make ready your array against their faces.

¹³Be exalted, Yahvah, in your own strength; so we will sing, and praise your power.

¹My god, my god, why have you let me live? Yet you have delayed my salvation from me, because of the words of my folly.
²My god, I call you in the daytime but you do not answer me; and in the night season you do not stay with me.

³For you are holy, and Israel lives under your glory.
⁴Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you delivered them.
⁵They cried to you and were delivered; they trusted in you and were not confounded.

⁶But I am a worm, and not a man; a disgrace of men, and despised of the people.
⁷All those who saw me have laughed me to scorn; they shoot out with their lips, they shake their heads saying,
⁸He trusted in Yahvah; let Yahvah deliver him; let him save him, if he be delighted in him.

⁹For you are my trust since I came out of the womb, and my hope since I was on my mother's breasts.
¹⁰I was put under your care from the womb; you are my god from my mother's belly.
¹¹Do not be far from me; for trouble is near; for there is no one to help.

¹²Many bulls have surrounded me: strong bulls of Bashan have besieged me.
¹³Their mouths snarl against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.
¹⁴I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is melted like wax, and my bowels are wasted in the middle of me.
¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have thrown me into the dust of death.

¹⁶For the vicious have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they have pierced my hands and my feet.
¹⁷My bones ached with pain; they looked and stared on me.
¹⁸They parted my garments among them, and cast lots on my vesture.

¹⁹But, Yahvah, do not be far from me; god, god, stay and help me.
²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword, my only one from the hand of the vicious.
²¹Save me from the lion's mouth; save my meekness from the haughty,
²²that I may declare your name to my brothers; in the middle of the congregation, I will praise you.
²³You who revere Yahvah, praise him; all you, the offspring of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you sons of Israel.
²⁴For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor; nor has he turned away his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard him.

²⁵My praise will be of you in the great congregation; I will fulfill my vows before those who worship him.
²⁶The poor will eat and be satisfied; they will praise Yahvah that seek him; their hearts will live forever.

²⁷All the ends of the world will remember and turn to Yahvah; and all the relatives of the Gentiles will worship before you.
²⁸For the kingdom is Yahvah's; he is the governor over the Gentiles.

²⁹All those who are hungry on land, will eat and worship before Yahvah; all those who are buried, will kneel before him; my soul is alive to him.
³⁰An offspring will serve him; its generations will proclaim master.
³¹They will come and declare his righteousness to a people that will be born, and tell what Yahvah has done.

¹Yahvah is my shepherd; I will not want.
²He makes me to rest in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters.
³He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

⁴Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.

⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
⁶Surely, your goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life; and I will live in the house of Yahvah forever.

¹The land is Yahvah's and its fullness; the world and those who live there.
²For he has set its foundation in the sea, and has furnished it with rivers.

³Who will ascend into the mountain of Yahvah? Who will stand in his holy place?
⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not sworn by his soul falsely, nor taken an oath deceitfully.
⁵He will receive the blessing from Yahvah, and righteousness from god our savior.
⁶This is the generation of those who seek your face, that proclaim your countenance, god of Jacob.

⁷Lift up your heads, gates; and be lifted up, everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in.
⁸Who is this king of glory? Yahvah, strong and mighty, Yahvah mighty in battle.
⁹Lift up your heads, gates; and be lifted up, everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in.
¹⁰Who is this king of glory? Yahvah of hosts, he is the king of glory forever.

¹To you, Yahvah, I lift up my soul.
²My god, I trust in you; do not let me be ashamed, do not let my enemies triumph over me.
³Yes, let no one who trusts in you be ashamed; let the wicked be ashamed with their vanity.

⁴Show me your ways, Yahvah; teach me your paths.
⁵Lead me in your truth, and teach me; for you are my god and my savior; on you I wait all the day.

⁶Remember, Yahvah, your tender mercies and your lovingkindnesses; for they are from the beginning of the world.
⁷Do not remember the foolishness of my youth, but according to your abundant mercy, remember me because of your goodness' sake, god.

⁸Good and upright is Yahvah; therefore he will direct sinners in the way.
⁹He will guide the meek in judgment, and he will teach the poor his way.
¹⁰All the paths of Yahvah are mercy and truth to such as keep his contract and his testimonies.
¹¹For your name's sake, Yahvah, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.
¹²What man is he that fears Yahvah? He will teach him in the way that he has chosen.
¹³His soul will stay with grace, and his offspring will inherit the land.
¹⁴Yahvah is mindful of those who worship him, and he will show them his contract.
¹⁵My eyes are ever toward Yahvah; for he will release my feet out of the net.

¹⁶Turn to me, and have mercy on me; for I am the only son and destitute.
¹⁷The troubles of my heart are multiplied; bring me out of my distresses.
¹⁸Look on my affliction and my labor; and forgive all my sins.

¹⁹Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with an unjust hatred.
²⁰Keep my soul, and deliver me, because I have trusted in you.
²¹The innocent and the upright have followed me because I have trusted in you.

²²God has saved Israel from all of his oppressors.

¹Judge me, Yahvah; for I have walked in my integrity; I have also trusted in Yahvah; therefore I will not waver.
²Prove me, Yahvah, and try me; examine my mind and my heart.
³For your lovingkindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in your faith.

⁴I have not sat with evil persons; nor have I associated with detestable persons.
⁵I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and have not sat with the wicked.

⁶I have washed my hands clean, and I have gone around your altar, Yahvah,
⁷that I may hear the voice of your praise and tell of all your wondrous works.
⁸Yahvah, I have loved the ritual of your house and the place where your glory lives.
⁹Do not destroy me with sinners, nor my life with bloody men,
¹⁰in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

¹¹But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; save me and be merciful to me.
¹²My foot has stood in the straight way; in the congregation, I will bless Yahvah.

¹Yahvah is my light and my salvation; whom will I fear? Yahvah is the strength of my life; of whom will I be afraid?
²When evildoers came on me to devour me, even my enemies and those who hate me, they together stumbled and fell.

³Though a host should camp against me, my heart will not fear; though war should rise against me, in this, I will be confident.

⁴1 thing I have asked of Yahvah, that I will seek after; that I may live in the house of Yahvah all the days of my life, to see the delight of Yahvah, and to be in charge of his house.

⁵For in the day of trouble, he will hide me in his shelter; in the shadow of his tent, he will hide me; he will set me on a rock.

⁶And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; therefore in his tent, I will offer sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahvah.

⁷Hear, Yahvah, my voice when I call on you; also, have mercy on me and answer me.
⁸My heart said to you, Let my face seek your face.
⁹Do not turn your face away from me, Yahvah; do not trouble your servant in anger; you have been my help, Yahvah; do not cast me out, nor leave me, my god and my savior.
¹⁰Although my father and my mother have deserted me, Yahvah has taken me up.

¹¹Teach me your way, Yahvah, and lead me in your right paths.
¹²Do not deliver me over into the hands of my enemies; for false witnesses are risen up against me and have spoken cruelly.

¹³But I have believed, to see the goodness of Yahvah in the land of the living.
¹⁴Trust in Yahvah, and be of good courage; yes, trust in Yahvah.

¹To you I have cried, my god; do not be silent to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy house.

³Do not count me with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
⁴Reward them according to their deeds and according to their evil actions.
⁵Because they have not understood the works of Yahvah, nor the operation of his hands, he will destroy them and not build them up.

⁶Blessed be Yahvah, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷Yahvah is my helper and my protector; my heart trusted in him, and I am happy; I will praise him with glorious song.

⁸Yahvah is the strength of his people, and he is the protector of the salvation of his anointed.
⁹Save your people, Yahvah, and bless your inheritance; also shepherd them, and take care of them forever.

¹Bring to Yahvah the offspring of rams; bring to Yahvah glory and honor.
²Give to Yahvah the glory due his name; worship Yahvah in the court of his holy house.

³The voice of Yahvah is on the waters; the god of glory thunders; Yahvah is on many waters.
⁴The voice of Yahvah is powerful; the voice of Yahvah is full of majesty.

⁵The voice of Yahvah breaks the cedars; yes, Yahvah breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶He also makes them skip like calves, Lebanon and Sirion like a young ox.

⁷The voice of Yahvah divides the flames of fire.
⁸The voice of Yahvah shakes the wilderness; Yahvah shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹The voice of Yahvah makes the red-deer tremble, and uproots the forests; and in his house, everyone speaks of his glory.

¹⁰Yahvah controls the flood; yes, Yahvah sits as king, forever.
¹¹Yahvah will give strength to his people; Yahvah will bless his people with peace.

¹I will extol you, Yahvah; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
²Yahvah, my god, I have sought you, and you have healed me.
³You have brought up my soul from the grave; you have saved me, that I should not join those who go down to the pit.

⁴Sing to Yahvah, saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
⁵For there is rebuke in his anger and life in his good will; weeping may last for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

⁶In my security, I said, I will never be moved.
⁷God, by your favor, you have increased my glory; you turned away your face, and I was troubled.

⁸I cried to you, master, and to Yahvah, I made supplication.
⁹What profit is there in shedding my blood, when I go down to corruption? The dust will not praise you and it will not declare your truth.
¹⁰Hear, god, and have mercy on me; Yahvah, be my helper.

¹¹You have turned for me my mourning into joy; you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
¹²therefore I will sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahvah, my god, I will give thanks to you forever.

¹In you, Yahvah, I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in your righteousness.
²Incline your ear to me and answer me speedily; be to me the god, the helper, and the house of refuge; and save me.

³For you are my strength and my refuge; therefore for your name's sake, comfort me and guide me.
⁴Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me; for you are my protector.
⁵Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, Yahvah, god of truth.

⁶I have hated those who observe false worship; but I trust in you, Yahvah.
⁷I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy; for you have seen my humility; you have known my soul in adversities;
⁸and you have not surrendered me into the hand of my enemies; you have established my feet in tranquility.

⁹Have mercy on me, Yahvah, for I am in distress; my eye is troubled with wrath, yes, my soul and my body.
¹⁰For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength is weakened because of poverty, and my bones are shaken because of my enemies.

¹¹I have become a disgrace to my neighbors and a dread to my acquaintances, those who saw me on the street fled from me.
¹²I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like something given up for lost.
¹³For I have heard of the complicity of many persons; while they connived together against me, they schemed to take away my life.

¹⁴But I trusted in you, Yahvah; I said, You are my god, Yahvah.
¹⁵The times are in your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
¹⁶Make your face shine on your servant; save me through your mercies.
¹⁷Do not let me be ashamed, Yahvah; for I have called on you; let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
¹⁸Let the lips of the wicked be silent; for they speak falsely and disdainfully against the righteous.

¹⁹How great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who worship you, which you have worked for those who trust in you before the sons of men.
²⁰Hide them in the citadel of your presence, from the tumult of men; with your shadow, guard them from contention.

²¹Blessed be Yahvah, for he has elected for himself the chosen ones in a strong city.
²²I said in my haste, I am lost from before your eyes; nevertheless, you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

²³Love Yahvah, all his righteous ones; for Yahvah preserves the faithful, and rewards the wicked according to their works.
²⁴Be of good courage and he will strengthen your heart, all you who trust in Yahvah.

¹Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is blotted out.
²Blessed is the man to whom Yahvah has not reckoned his iniquity, and in whose heart there is no guile.

³Because I suffered in silence all the day long, my bones waxed old during my deep slumber.
⁴For day and night, your hand was heavy on me; intense pain developed in my heart, great enough to kill me.

⁵I have acknowledged my sin to you, and my iniquity I have not hidden from you. I said, I will confess my faults to Yahvah; and you forgave all of my sins.

⁶For this, let everyone who is chosen, pray to you at an appointed time; surely even the floods of great waters will not come near him.
⁷You are my refuge; you will protect me from my enemies; you will circle around me with glory and salvation.

⁸I have made you understand and have led you on the way which you will take; I will follow you with my eyes.
⁹Do not be as the horse or as the mule, which have no understanding, which must be subdued with bit and bridle from their youth; no one goes near them.

¹⁰The wicked has many sorrows; but he that trusts in Yahvah, mercy will surround him.
¹¹Be glad in Yahvah and rejoice, you righteous; and praise him, all you who are upright in heart.

¹Rejoice in Yahvah, you righteous; for praise is pleasing for the upright.
²Praise Yahvah with harp and guitar; sing praises to him with a harp of 10 strings.
³Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a beautiful rhythm.

⁴For the word of Yahvah is right; and all his works are done in truth.
⁵He loves righteousness and judgment; the land is full of the goodness of Yahvah.

⁶By the word of Yahvah were the skies made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
⁷The waters of the sea he gathers together as in a heap of waterskins; he lays up the depths in storehouses.

⁸Let all the land fear Yahvah; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
⁹For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

¹⁰Yahvah brings the counsel of the Gentiles to nothing; Yahvah makes the devices of the people of no effect.
¹¹The counsel of Yahvah stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
¹²Blessed is the nation whose god is Yahvah; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

¹³Yahvah looks from the skies; he beholds all the sons of men.
¹⁴From his throne he looks on all the inhabitants of the land.
¹⁵He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works.
¹⁶The king is not saved by the multitude of a host; nor does a mighty man deliver by great strength.
¹⁷A horse is a false thing for salvation; nor will it deliver its rider by its great strength.

¹⁸Look, the eye of Yahvah is on the righteous, on those who hope in his mercy,
¹⁹to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

²⁰Our soul waits for Yahvah; he is our help and our shield.
²¹For our hearts will rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
²²Let your mercy, Yahvah, be on us, according to our hope in you.

¹I will bless Yahvah at all times; his praises will continually be in my mouth.
²My soul will make its boast in Yahvah; let the humble hear and be glad.
³Magnify Yahvah with me, and let us exalt his name together.

⁴I sought Yahvah, and he heard and delivered me from all my troubles.
⁵Look towards him and trust in him, and you will not be disappointed.
⁶This poor man called on him, and he heard him and saved him from all his troubles.
⁷The host of angels of Yahvah encamps around those who worship him, and delivers them.

⁸Taste and see that Yahvah is good; blessed is the man that trusts in him.
⁹The rich have become poor and suffer hunger;
¹⁰those who seek Yahvah will not lack any good thing.

¹¹Come, you sons, listen to me, and I will teach you reverence for Yahvah.
¹²Where is the man who does not desire life and many days, that he may see the good time to come?
¹³Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.
¹⁴Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵The eyes of Yahvah are on the righteous, and his ears are open to hear them.
¹⁶The face of Yahvah is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the land.
¹⁷The righteous cried, and Yahvah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸Yahvah is near those who are brokenhearted, and he saves those who are humble in spirit.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but Yahvah delivers him out of them all.
²⁰He keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken.
²¹Evil will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be destroyed.
²²Yahvah redeems the soul of his servants, and not one of those who trust in him will be condemned.

¹Plead my cause, Yahvah, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me.
²Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
³Draw out the sword and flash it against those who persecute me; say to my soul, I am your savior.

⁴Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that devise evil against me.
⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Yahvah chase them.
⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Yahvah persecute them.

⁷For they have dug pits for me and have spread a snare for my soul.
⁸Let evil come on them unexpectedly; and let the net that they have hidden trap them; into that very pit which they have dug, let them fall.

⁹My soul will be joyful in god; it will rejoice in his salvation.
¹⁰All my bones will say, Yahvah, who is like you, who delivers the poor from his enemies, yes, the poor and the needy, from him who seizes his property by force?

¹¹False witnesses rose up; they charged me with things that I did not know.
¹²They rewarded me evil for good, and they destroyed my reputation among men.
¹³But as for me, when they were sick, I wore sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own embrace.
¹⁴I behaved myself as though they had been my friends and brothers; I bowed down heavily, as one miserable in deep mourning.

¹⁵During my misery, they gathered together and rejoiced; yes, they gathered together against me for a long time, and I did not know it;
¹⁶with their boasting and mocking, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

¹⁷My master, I have suffered enough; rescue my soul from their riot, my only one from the lions.
¹⁸I will give you thanks in the great congregation; I will praise you among many people.

¹⁹Do not let my enemies rejoice over me, nor the mockers who hate me for no reason; they wink with their eyes, but they do not salute.
²⁰Against the meek of the land, they devise mischievous things.
²¹Yes, they opened their mouths wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

²²You have seen this, god; do not keep silent; my master, do not be far from me.
²³Stir yourself up and awake to my judgment, see my suffering, my god and my master.
²⁴Judge me, Yahvah my god, according to your righteousness; and do not let them rejoice over me.
²⁵Do not let them say in their hearts, We have rid ourselves of him and we have buried him.

²⁶Let those be ashamed and brought to confusion, who wish me evil; let those be clothed with shame and dishonor, who magnify themselves against me.
²⁷Let those who are pleased with my victory, shout for joy and be glad; yes, let them say continually, Yahvah be magnified who has pleasure in the peace of his servant,
²⁸and my tongue will speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

¹The unjust conceives wickedness inside his heart, for there is no fear of god before his eyes.
²He is unwilling to see his sins forgiven, or to hate them.
³The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit; he is unwilling to do good.
⁴He devises mischief on his bed; he walks in a way that is not good, that he may do evil.

⁵Yahvah, your mercy is in the skies; and your faithfulness reaches to the universe.
⁶Your righteousness is like the mountain of god; your judgments are like a great deep; Yahvah, you preserve man and animal.

⁷How abundant is your lovingkindness, god! Therefore the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
⁸They will flourish with the richness of your house; and you will give them to drink of the pleasant water of your spring.
⁹For with you is the fountain of life; in your light, we will see light.

¹⁰Continue your lovingkindness to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright in heart.
¹¹Do not let the foot of pride come against me, and do not let the hand of the wicked remove me.
¹²For there, the workers of iniquity will fall; they will be cast down, and will not be able to rise.

¹Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity,
²for they will soon wither like grass, and fade away as the green herbs.

³Trust in god, and do good; live in the land, and seek after faithfulness.
⁴Trust in Yahvah; and he will give you the desires of your heart.

⁵Commit your way to Yahvah; also trust in him, and he will bring it to pass.
⁶He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.

⁷Seek Yahvah, and pray before him; do not envy the man who does evil, and prospers in his way.

⁸Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret yourself in any way to do evil.
⁹For evildoers will be cut off: but those who trust in Yahvah will inherit the land.

¹⁰For yet a little while, and the wicked will not be anymore: yes, you will look for his place, and you will not find it.
¹¹But the meek will inherit the land, and will delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

¹²The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
¹³The master will laugh at him; for he sees that his day is coming.

¹⁴The wicked have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow, to slay the poor and needy, and those who are upright in their way.
¹⁵Their swords will enter into their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
¹⁶A little that a righteous man has, is better than the great riches of the wicked.
¹⁷For the arms of the wicked will be broken; but Yahvah upholds the righteous.

¹⁸Yahvah knows the days of the upright; and their inheritance will be forever.
¹⁹They will not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine, they will be satisfied.

²⁰For the wicked will perish, and the rich who are enemies of Yahvah will be consumed; they will vanish like smoke.

²¹The wicked borrows, and does not pay again; but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
²²For the blessed of Yahvah will inherit the land; and those who are cursed of him will be wiped out.

²³The steps of a good man are established by Yahvah; he sets his course.
²⁴Though he fall, he will not be hurt; for Yahvah upholds him with his hand.

²⁵I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his sons begging bread.
²⁶But he is ever merciful and lends; and his offspring is blessed.

²⁷Depart from evil, and do good; and rest forever.
²⁸For Yahvah loves justice, and he does not forsake his righteous ones; he keeps them forever; but the seed of the wicked, he destroys.
²⁹The righteous will inherit the land, and live in it forever.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.
³¹The law of god is in his heart; none of his steps will slide.
³²The wicked lies in wait for the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
³³Yahvah will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

³⁴Trust in Yahvah and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

³⁵For I have seen the wicked boasting and spreading himself like stout forest trees;
³⁶yet when I passed by, look, he was not; yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

³⁷Uphold the perfect and select the upright; for there is a good end for peaceful men.
³⁸But sinners will be destroyed together; yes, the end of the wicked will be destruction.

³⁹But the savior of the righteous is Yahvah; he will help them in time of trouble.
⁴⁰And Yahvah will help them and deliver them; he will deliver them from the wicked and save them, because they trust in him.

¹Yahvah, do not rebuke me in your wrath; nor chasten me in the heat of your anger.
²For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand rests heavily on me.

³There is no peace in my flesh because of your anger; nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sins.
⁴For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a great burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
⁶I am greatly troubled; all day long I walk sadly.
⁷My loins are filled with trembling, and there is no peace in my body.
⁸I am feeble and miserable; I have groaned because of the despair of my heart.

⁹Master, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
¹⁰My heart is broken, my strength has failed me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
¹¹My neighbors and my friends stood aside from my grief; and my kinsmen stood off.

¹²Those who seek after my life and wish me evil also lay hold of me and speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, did not hear; and I was as a mute man that does not open his mouth.
¹⁴Thus, I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth is no reproof.

¹⁵For in you, Yahvah, I hope; you will answer me, master my god.
¹⁶Because I said, Hear me, lest they rejoice over me; they scoff at me when my feet waver.

¹⁷I am prepared to suffer, and my sorrow is continually with me.
¹⁸I will declare my iniquity to you; I will purify myself of my sins.
¹⁹But my enemies are strong and alert; and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
²⁰They reward me evil for good; they disgrace me because I seek after good things.

²¹Do not forsake me, Yahvah; my god, do not be far from me.
²²Stay and help me, master save me.

¹I said, I will be careful with my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep the words of my mouth under control, while the wicked are before me.
²I was mute and sorrowful, I was wretched, I held myself aloof, even from good; and my sorrow was multiplied.
³My heart was hot inside me; and my body was on fire; then I spoke with my tongue.

⁴Yahvah, show me my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know my destiny.
⁵Look, you have given my days a limit; and my age is as nothing before you; assuredly all men stand as a mere breath.
⁶Because every man walks as an image, he disappears as a breath; he buries treasures and does not know who will gather them.

⁷From now on, what is my hope, except in you, master?
⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the disgrace of the unjust.
⁹I was mute, I did not open my mouth, because you did it.
¹⁰Remove your scourges from me; I am struck by the blow of your hand.
¹¹I am consumed by rebuke on account of my sins; you chastise a man and remove his desires like stubble. Assuredly all men are like a breath.

¹²Hear my prayer, Yahvah; give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears; for I live with you and am a temporary resident here, as all my fathers were.
¹³Deliver me, that I may rest in peace, before I pass away and not be anymore.

¹I waited patiently for Yahvah; and he turned towards me and heard my supplication.
²He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the mire of destruction, and set my feet on a rock and established my path.
³And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our god, that many will see it and rejoice and trust in Yahvah.

⁴Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of Yahvah, and who does not return to vanity; nor to lying conversation.
⁵Many are your works which you have done for us, Yahvah our god, and your wonderful care for us; I have declared that they are too many to be numbered; there is no one like you.

⁶Sacrifices and offerings you did not desire; but as for me, I now have understanding; burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
⁷Then I said, Look, I come; in the beginning of the books, it is written of me,
⁸I delight to do your will, my god; yes, your law is inside my heart.

⁹I have preached your righteousness in the great congregation; look, I have not refrained my lips, Yahvah, you know.
¹⁰I have not hidden your righteousness inside my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.

¹¹Do not withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahvah; let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
¹²For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; and my heart fails me.

¹³Be pleased, Yahvah, to deliver me; Yahvah, continue to help me.
¹⁴Let those who seek after my soul to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded; let them be driven backward and put to shame who wish me evil.
¹⁵Let them be overthrown for their disgraceful conduct, who say to me, Aha, aha!

¹⁶Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let such, as love your salvation, say continually, Yahvah be magnified.
¹⁷But I am poor and needy; my master, they have conspired against me; help me and deliver me; do not tarry, my god.

¹Blessed is he who looks after the poor; Yahvah will deliver him in time of trouble.
²Yahvah will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will bless him on the land; he will not deliver him into the hands of his enemies.
³Yahvah will strengthen him on his sick bed; he will wholly recover from his illness.

⁴I have said, Yahvah, be merciful to me and heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.
⁵My enemies speak evil of me: When will he die, and his name perish?
⁶When they come to see me, they speak falsely and their hearts devise evil; they go out into the street and gossip about me.
⁷All that hate me, whisper together about me; they devise evil against me.

⁸They conceive unjust accusations against me; they say, Now that he lies sick in his bed, he will not rise up any longer.
⁹Yes, even the man who visits me, in whom I trust, who eats my bread and whom I trust, betrays me.
¹⁰But you, Yahvah, be merciful to me and heal me, that I may repay them.

¹¹By this, I know that you are pleased with me, because my enemy does not irk me.
¹²And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.

¹³Blessed is Yahvah, god of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

¹As the deer pants after the water brook, so my soul pants after you, Yahvah.
²My soul thirsts after you, living god; when will I come to see your face?
³My tears have been my bread day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your god?
⁴When I remember these things, my soul is agitated; therefore I will enter your mighty citadel, even to the house of god, with the voice of joy and praise, with the many people who rejoice.

⁵Why are you troubled, my soul? Why are you bewildered? Trust in god; for I will yet praise him, the savior of my honor and my god.

⁶My soul is troubled inside me; therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan, from the mount of Hermon and from the hill.
⁷Deep calls to deep at the sound of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.
⁸Yet Yahvah will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night, his song will be with me, and my prayer to the living god.
⁹I will say to god, Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of my enemies?
¹⁰When my bones are broken, my enemies disgrace me; while they say daily to me, Where is your god?

¹¹Why are you disturbed, my soul? Why are you bewildered? Hope in god; for I will yet praise him, the savior of my honor and my god.

¹Judge me, god, and avenge my cause against a merciless people; deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
²For you are the god of my strength. Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

³Send out your light and your truth; let them comfort me; let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your tent.
⁴Then I will go before the altar of god, to god who makes me joyful with the joy of youth; yes, on the harp I will praise you, god, my god.

⁵Why are you disturbed, my soul? Why are you sad inside me? Hope in god; for I will yet praise him, who is the savior of my honor and my god.

¹We have heard with our ears, god, our fathers have told us what work you have worked in their days, in the times of old;
²how you destroyed the Gentiles with your hand, and established your people; how you vexed the kingdoms, and strengthened your people.
³For they did not inherit the land by their sword, nor did their own arm save them; but your right hand and your arm and the light of your countenance, because you were pleased with them.

⁴You are my king, god; for you command deliverances for Jacob.
⁵Through you, we will pierce our enemies; through your name, we will trample under those who hate us.
⁶For we do not trust in our bows; nor on our armour to save us.
⁷But you have saved us from those who hate us, and have put to shame our enemies.
⁸We glorify you, god, all day long, and praise your name forever.

⁹But now, you have forsaken us and put us to shame, and do not go forth with our armies:
¹⁰but you make us to be defeated; and our enemies have plundered us.
¹¹You have sold us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the Gentiles.
¹²You have sold your people as a bargain, and do not profit by their exchange.
¹³You make us a disgrace to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those who are around us.
¹⁴You make us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.
¹⁵All the day, long my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
¹⁶because of the voice of him who disgraces and blasphemes; and because of the enemy that avenges.

¹⁷All this is come on us; yet we have not forgotten you, nor have we dealt falsely in your contract.
¹⁸We have not turned back, nor have we swerved our steps from your way;
¹⁹for you have humbled us a 2nd time in the land, and covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰Yet we have not forgotten the name of our god, or stretched out our hands to stranger gods;
²¹god will look into this thing, for he knows the secrets of the heart.
²²Yes, for your sake, we are killed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Awake and do not sleep, master; remember us and do not forsake us.
²⁴Do not turn your face from us, and do not forget our humiliation and our oppression;
²⁵for our soul is humbled down to the dust; our body touches the land.
²⁶Arise to help us; redeem us for your mercies' sake.

¹My heart bubbles forth good news and I will tell my deeds to the king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

²You are fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into your lips; therefore god has blessed you forever.
³Gird your sword on your thigh, most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.

⁴Your majesty is triumphant; ride on the word of truth and meekness and righteousness; your law is upheld by reverence for your right hand.
⁵Your arrows are sharp; let them pierce the heart of the king's enemies, and let the people fall under you.

⁶Your throne, god, is forever and ever; the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
⁷You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore god, your god, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
⁸All your garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the magnificent house by which they have made you glad.
⁹The king's daughter stands in glory, the queen stands at your right hand in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰Listen, my daughter, and consider and incline your ear; also forget your own people and your father's house.
¹¹So the king will greatly desire your beauty; for he is your master; give homage to him.
¹²And the daughter of Tyre will worship him; even the rich among the people will seek your presence with gifts.

¹³All the glory of the king's daughter is from inside; her clothing is adorned with fine gold.
¹⁴She will be brought to the king with gifts; and her virgin companions will follow in her train.
¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing they will be brought; they will enter into the king's house.

¹⁶Instead of your fathers, will be your sons; you will make them princes in all the land,
¹⁷I will make your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore the people will praise you forever and ever.

¹God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
²You have been with us always; therefore we will not fear when the land quakes and mountains are shaken into the heart of the sea,
³though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its force.

⁴There is a river, the streams of which will make glad the city of our god, the holy place of the most high.
⁵God is in the middle of her; she will not be moved; god will help her in the early morning.
⁶The heathen raged, the kingdoms trembled: he raised his voice, the land quaked.
⁷Yahvah of hosts is with us; the god of Jacob is our refuge.

⁸Come, look at the works of god, for he does wonders in the land.
⁹He makes wars cease to the end of the land; he breaks the bow and cuts the spear apart; he burns the chariot in the fire.
¹⁰Repent, and know that I am god; I am exalted among the heathen and I am exalted in the land.
¹¹Yahvah of hosts is with us; the god of Jacob is our refuge.

¹Clap your hands, all people; shout to god with the voice of triumph.
²For Yahvah is most high and reverenced; he is a great king over all the land.
³For he has subdued the Gentiles under us, and the nations under our feet.
⁴He has chosen us for the inheritance, and for the glory of Jacob, whom he loved.

⁵God is gone up with glory, Yahvah with the sound of a trumpet.
⁶Sing praises to god; sing praises to our king.
⁷For god is the king of all the land; sing praises to him.

⁸God reigns over the heathen; god sits on his holy throne.
⁹The rulers of the Gentiles have returned to the god of Abraham; for the dominions of the land belong to god, and he is greatly exalted.

¹Great is Yahvah, and exceedingly exalted in the city of our god and in his holy and glorious mountain.
²Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole land, is mount Zion on the slopes of the north, the city of the great king.
³God shows his might in her walled cities.

⁴For look, the kings were prepared, and they passed by together.
⁵They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were frustrated and hurried away.
⁶Fear took hold of them, and pain, like a woman in travail.
⁷With a violent storm, the ships of Tarshish will be broken.
⁸As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of our god; god will establish it forever.

⁹We have trusted on your lovingkindness, god, in the middle of your house.
¹⁰As is your name, god, so is your praise to the ends of the land; your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad because of your judgments, Yahvah.

¹²Circle Zion, and go around her; count her towers.
¹³Mark well her strength and the depth of her bulwarks, that you may tell it to another generation.
¹⁴For this god is our god forever and ever; he will be our guide until death.

¹Hear this, all people; give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
²sons of land and sons of men, rich and poor together.
³My mouth will speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart will be of understanding.
⁴I will incline my ear to parables; I will chant my proverbs on the harp.

⁵I will not fear in days of evil, when the iniquity of my enemies will surround me,
⁶those who trust in their own strength and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.
⁷A brother cannot save a brother, nor can a man give to god a ransom for himself;
⁸for the redemption of their souls is precious:
⁹do good forever and you will live forever, and not see corruption.

¹⁰But you will see wise men die; likewise, the fool and the weak minded will perish and leave their wealth to others.
¹¹Their graves will be their only habitations forever, and their dwelling places throughout generations; their marked graves will be their only remembrance on land.
¹²Nevertheless, such a man is not sustained by his honor; his end will be as the animals, and he will perish.

¹³This, their way, is their folly; in the end, demented, they will graze like cattle.
¹⁴Like sheep, they are consigned to the grave; death will feed on them; and the upright will have dominion over them in the morning; the grave will consume their beauty, and they will be cast out from their glory.
¹⁵But god will redeem my soul; from the power of the grave, he will raise me up.

¹⁶Do not be afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
¹⁷for when he dies, he will carry nothing away; nor will his glory descend after him.
¹⁸For while he lived, he lived comfortably; he praised you when you favored him.
¹⁹His end will be as his father's was before him; they will never see light.
²⁰Man cannot depend on his honor for consolation, for if he does, he resembles the wild animals.

¹The god of gods, Yahvah, has spoken and called the land from the rising of the sun to its going down.
²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, god has shined.

³Our god will come, and will not keep silent; a fire will consume before him, and it will flame around him greatly.
⁴He will call to the skies from above and to the land, that he may judge his people.
⁵Gather to him, his saints, those who have made a contract with him by sacrifice.
⁶And the skies will declare his righteousness; for god himself is judge.

⁷Hear, my people, and I will speak to you; Israel, I will testify to you: I am god, even your god.
⁸I did not reprimand you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings; they are continually before me.
⁹I will take no bulls out of your house, nor he-goats out of your folds.
¹⁰For all the animals of the forest are mine, and the cattle and the oxen on the hills.
¹¹I know all the birds of the air; and the wild animals of the desert are mine.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine and its fullness.
¹³I do not eat the flesh of bulls, nor do I drink the blood of goats.
¹⁴Offer to god the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and fulfill your vows to the most high.
¹⁵Call on me in the day of trouble; I will strengthen you, and you will glorify me.

¹⁶But to the sinner, god says, How have you followed the books of my law? You have observed my contract lightly,
¹⁷seeing that you hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
¹⁸When you saw a thief, you joined with him, and you have been a partaker with adulterers.

¹⁹You have given your mouth to evil and your tongue speaks deceit.
²⁰You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
²¹All of these things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought that I was wicked like you; but I will reprimand you, and correct these sins before your eyes.

²²Now understand this, you who forget god, lest you be crushed and there not be anyone to deliver.
²³Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me; and to him, I will show the way of the salvation of our god.

¹Have mercy on me, god, according to your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my sins.
²Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

³For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
⁴Against you, you only, I have sinned, and done what is evil in your sight; for you will be justified in your reproof, triumphant in your judgments.
⁵For look, I was formed in iniquity; and in sin, my mother conceived me.
⁶Look, you desire truth, and the hidden things of your wisdom you have made known to me.

⁷Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
⁸Satisfy me with your joy and gladness, that my broken spirit may rejoice.
⁹Turn your face away from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, god, and renew a right spirit inside me.
¹¹Do not cast me away from your presence; and do not take your holy spirit from me.
¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your glorious spirit.

¹³Then I will teach transgressors your way, and sinners will be converted to you.
¹⁴Deliver me from bloodshedding, god, god of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
¹⁵Master, open my lips, and my mouth will show forth your praise;
¹⁶for you do not desire sacrifice; you do not delight in burnt offerings.
¹⁷The sacrifices of god are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, god, you will not despise.

¹⁸Do good in your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
¹⁹Then you will be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then they will offer gifts on your altar.

¹Why do you boast of evil, mighty man? Your tongue devises injustices against the innocent every day.
²It is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
³You love evil more than good, and lying, rather than speaking righteousness.
⁴You love all that speak evil and all deceitful tongues;
⁵therefore god will overthrow you, and he will root you out of your dwelling place, and out of the land of the living.
⁶Then the righteous will see and rejoice, and will trust in Yahvah;
⁷and they will say, Look, this is the man who did not trust in god; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and boasted in his possessions.

⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of god; I have trusted in the mercy of god forever and ever.
⁹I will praise you forever, because you have done it; and I will proclaim your name before your saints for generations.

¹The fool has said in his heart, There is no god. They are corrupt, and abominable in their iniquities; and there is no one who does good.

²God looked down from the skies on the sons of men to see if there were any that understood, that sought god.

³Everyone of them has gone astray; they have altogether become filthy; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

⁴These people no longer recognize evil; they have consumed my people like bread; they have no respect for god.

⁵There, they feared where no fear was; for god has scattered the bones of hypocrites; they have been ashamed, because god has despised them.

⁶Who out of Zion will give salvation to Israel? When god brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad.

¹Save me, god, by your name, and judge me by your strength;
²hear my prayer, god; give ear to the words of my mouth.

³For strangers are risen up against me, and the mighty seek after my life; they have disregarded you, god.

⁴Look, god is my helper; master sustains my soul.
⁵Bring disaster to my enemies; silence them in your truth.

⁶I will freely sacrifice to you; I will praise your name, Yahvah, for it is good;
⁷for you have delivered me out of all troubles; and my eye has seen my enemies defeated.

¹Give ear to my prayer, god; and do not reject my supplication.
²Hear me and answer me; return to my cry and incline to me,
³because of my enemies, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they have devised iniquity against me, and disgraced me.

⁴My heart is greatly pained inside me; and the terrors of death are fallen on me.
⁵Fearfulness and trembling have come on me, and the shadow of death has overwhelmed me.
⁶And I said, that I had wings like a dove, then I would fly away and be at rest.
⁷Look, then I would fly far off and live in the wilderness.

⁸I would wait for him who will save me from the windy storm and the tempest.

⁹Destroy, master, and render useless their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰Day and night they go about it, around its walls; injustice and mischief are in the middle of it.
¹¹Wickedness is in the middle of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

¹²For it was not my enemy that disgraced me; then I could have borne it; nor was it he that hated me, who magnified himself against me; then I would have hidden myself from him;
¹³but it was you, a man my equal, my kinsman, and my friend.
¹⁴We ate a meal together in the house of god, and we walked in harmony.
¹⁵Bring death on them; bury them alive in the grave, because there is evil among them.

¹⁶As for me, I will call on god; and god will save me.
¹⁷At evening and in the morning and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and he will hear my voice.
¹⁸Deliver my soul from those who have been too wise for me, from those who have opposed me continuously.
¹⁹God, even the eternal one, will hear and humble them. With them also are no changes; therefore they do not fear god.

²⁰They have put forth their hands against their neighbors, they have broken his contract.
²¹They were afraid because of the anger in his countenance and the wrath in his heart; his words were smoother than butter, yet were they sharp like the point of a spear.

²²Cast your worries on Yahvah and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to fear want.

²³But you, god, will bring them down into the well of destruction; bloody and deceitful men will not live out their days; but I will trust in you.

¹Be merciful to me, god; for man has trampled me under foot; all day long the fighting oppresses me.
²My enemies have daily trampled me under foot; for many warriors have risen against me.
³I do not fear during the day, because I trust in you.
⁴In god I will be glorified, in god I have put my trust; I will not fear what man can do to me.

⁵All the day long they conspired against me and they devised evil against me.

⁶They will wait in hiding, they will watch my steps, inasmuch as they wish for my death.
⁷He has no deliverer, they have said, Condemn them with the condemnation of the Gentiles.

⁸God, I have declared my faith to you; record my tears before you in your book.
⁹Then will my enemies turn back; and I will know I have a god.
¹⁰In god, I will praise his word; in Yahvah, I will praise his word.
¹¹In god, I have put my trust; I will not fear what man can do to me.

¹²To you, I will perform my vows, god; I will offer them to you with thank offerings.
¹³For you have delivered my soul from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may be pleasing in your sight, god, in the land of the living.

¹Be merciful to me, god, be merciful to me; for my soul trusts in you; yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will make my refuge until these calamities be over.
²I will cry to god most high, to god my savior.
³For he has sent from the skies and delivered me; he has put my enemies to shame. God will send forth his mercy and his truth.

⁴He has delivered my life from the vicious, as I slept in fear, and from the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongues sharp swords.

⁵Be exalted, god, above the skies; let your glory be above all the land.

⁶They have prepared a net for my feet; they have dug a pit for my soul, into the middle of which they themselves have fallen.

⁷My heart is made ready, god, my heart is ready; I will sing and give praise in my glory.
⁸Awake, my harp; awake, psaltery and harp; I myself will awake early.
⁹I will praise you, master, among the people; I will sing to your name among the nations.
¹⁰For your mercy is exalted to the skies and your faithfulness to the skies.

¹¹Be exalted, god, above the skies; let your glory be above all the land.

¹Do you speak righteousness, congregation? Do you judge uprightly, sons of men?
²Look, you all speak evil on land, and your hands are soiled with injustice.

³The wicked are known from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
⁵and will not listen to the voice of the whisperer, nor to the charmer nor to the wise.

⁶Break their teeth in their mouths, god; pull out the fangs of the lions, Yahvah.
⁷Let them be rejected as water which is contaminated; let god shoot his arrows until the wicked are destroyed.
⁸Like the wax that melts, and drips before the fire, let them be destroyed: fire has fallen from the skies and they did not see; the light of truth has been given and they did not understand.
⁹Let their thorns be increased, and fear of wrath shake them violently.

¹⁰The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he will wash his hands in the blood of the wicked,
¹¹so that a man will say, Assuredly, there is a reward for the righteous; assuredly, there is a god that judges in the land.

¹Deliver me from my enemies, god; defend me from those who rise up against me.
²Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

³For look, they lie in wait for my soul; they have multiplied evil against me; not because I have transgressed or because I have sinned, Yahvah.
⁴They run and prepare themselves against me, without considering whether I have been at fault;
⁵awake to help me, and look, Yahvah, god of hosts, the god of Israel, awake to visit all the nations, and do not spare any wicked transgressors.

⁶They return at evening; they make a noise like dogs, and go around the city.
⁷Look, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who cares?

⁸But you, Yahvah, will laugh at them; you will have all the nations in derision.
⁹To you I will give praise, god, for you are my defense.
¹⁰God, your lovingkindness has preceded me; god has let me live to see my enemies avenged.

¹¹Spare them for a living example, lest my people forget; but scatter them by your power, and bring them down, master, my hope.
¹²For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; for it is cursing and lying that they speak.
¹³Consume them in your wrath, consume them, that they not be anymore, that they may know that god rules over Jacob and over the ends of the land.

¹⁴And at evening, let them return; and let them make a noise like dogs, and go around the city.
¹⁵Let them be hungry and not be filled, do not let them find a lodging place.

¹⁶But I will sing of your power; yes, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning; for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.
¹⁷To you, god, I will sing; for you are god of my refuge and the god of my mercy.

¹God, you have forsaken us, you have scattered us, you have been displeased with us; turn yourself to us again.
²You have made the land tremble; you have broken it; heal its breaches, for it has weakened.
³You have shown your people hardships; you have made us to drink the dregs of wine.

⁴You have worked a miracle to those who reverence you, so that they need not flee from the bow.

⁵That your beloved may be prepared, save with your right hand, and hear me.

⁶God has spoken in his holiness: I will be strong, I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth.
⁷Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is also the strength of my head; Judah is my king.
⁸Moab is my washpot; over Edom I will levy tribute; over Philistia I will triumph.

⁹Who will lead me into Edom? Who will bring me into the strong city?
¹⁰For look, god, you have cast us off, and you did not go before us with our armies.
¹¹Give us strength against our enemies; for vain is the help of man.
¹²Through god, we will do valiantly; for it is he who will tread down our enemies.

¹Hear my cry, god; attend to my prayer.
²From the end of the land, I will cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed; for you have led me on a rock and have comforted me.
³For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from my enemies.

⁴I will stay in your tent forever; I will make my refuge the shadow of your wings.
⁵For you, god, have heard my vows; you have given an inheritance to those who revere your name.

⁶You have added days to the days of the king, and his years as many generations.
⁷He will be established before god forever; mercy and justice will preserve him.

⁸So I will sing praise to your name forever, when I daily fulfill my vows.

¹My soul waits on god; from him comes my salvation.
²He, only, is my god and my salvation; he is my great defense; I will not be moved.

³How long will you threaten a man, so that you may kill him? Like a crumbling wall you will be, and as a tottering fence.
⁴For you have thought to cast him down from his excellency; you delight in lies; you bless with your mouths, but curse with your hearts.

⁵My soul, wait only on god; for my salvation is from him.
⁶He, only, is my god and my salvation; he is my defense; I will not be moved.
⁷In god is my salvation and my glory; god is my strength, my refuge, and my hope.

⁸Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your hearts before him; god is a refuge for us.

⁹Surely, all untrue men are like vapor; when they are placed in the balance, they are found wanting.
¹⁰Do not trust in oppression, and do not become vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not let your heart rejoice over them.

¹¹God has said this once; twice I have heard this; that power belongs to god.
¹²To you, master, also belongs mercy; for you render to every man according to his work.

¹God, you are my god; on you I wait; my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, as in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
²As in purity, I have seen you, so may I see your power and your glory.
³Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise you.
⁴Thus, I will bless you while I live; I will lift up my hands in your name.

⁵My soul will be enriched as with cream and fatness; and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips.
⁶I remember you on my bed and I meditate on you in the night watches.
⁷Because you have been my helper, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will glory.
⁸My soul follows hard after you; your right hand upholds me.

⁹But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, will go into the lower parts of the land.
¹⁰They will fall by the sword; they will be a portion for foxes.
¹¹But the king will rejoice in god; every man that swears by him will glory; but the mouths of those who speak lies will be stopped.

¹Hear my voice, god, as I pray to you; preserve my life from fear of my enemy.
²Hide me from the wickedness of the evil one; from the corruption of the workers of iniquity,
³who sharpen their tongues like a sword, and charge their words with poison like an arrow,
⁴that they may shoot in secret at the innocent; suddenly, they do shoot at him, and do not fear.
⁵They encourage themselves with evil speech; they plan to hide snares; they say, Who will see us?
⁶They plan wickedness, but they are destroyed, in order to consume evil from among men and from the depths of the heart.

⁷But god is great; suddenly, he will shoot at them with an arrow;
⁸so will their tongues be silenced, and all that see them will be frightened.
⁹And all men will fear, and will declare the work of god; for they will wisely consider the work of his hands.

¹⁰The righteous will be glad in Yahvah, and will trust in him; and all the upright in heart will glorify him.

¹Praise is befitting you, god, in Zion; and to you, the vow will be performed;
²hear my prayer; to you, will all flesh come.
³The words of the wicked have prevailed against me; as for our transgressions, you will purge them.
⁴Blessed is the man in whom you are pleased, whom you cause to approach you, that he may live in your courts and be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy house.

⁵From the majesty of your righteousness answer us, god of our salvation, who is the confidence of all the ends of the land, and of the peoples who are far away,
⁶who set fast the mountains by his strength, and is mighty in his power;
⁷he stills the tempest of the seas and the roar of their waves. The peoples will be troubled.
⁸The inhabitants of the land will tremble at your wonders, from the coming of morning to the evening.

⁹With glory, you visited the land and watered it; you have blessed it with peace and have greatly enriched it with the river of god, which is full of water; you have prepared food when you have established it.
¹⁰You have watered its fallowed ground; to bring forth fruits, you have sprinkled its growth with showers and blessed it.
¹¹You crown the year with your goodness; and the calves have rich pasture.
¹²They will be filled with the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills will be surrounded with glory.
¹³The pastures will be covered with fattening sheep, the valleys will be clothed with wheat; they will rejoice, yes, they will sing.

¹Make a joyful noise to god, all lands.
²Sing the honor of his name; sing the honor of his majesty.
³Say to god, How wonderful are your works. Through the greatness of your power, your enemies will submit themselves to you.
⁴All the land will worship you, and will sing to your name; they will glorify your name forever.

⁵They will say, Come and see the works of god; for his wonders are great toward the sons of men.
⁶He turns the sea into dry land: they crossed through the river on foot; there, we rejoiced in him.
⁷He rules by his power forever; his eyes look at the nations; do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.

⁸Bless our god, you people, and make the voice of his praise be heard,
⁹who holds our soul in life, and does not prevent our feet from being moved.
¹⁰For you, god, have proved us; you have tried us, as silver is tried.
¹¹You brought us into the net; you laid affliction on our loins.
¹²You have caused us to be in servitude; we went through fire and through water; finally, you brought us out into a comfortable place.

¹³I will go into your house with gifts; I will pay you my vows,
¹⁴which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.
¹⁵I will offer to you burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the savor of rams; I will offer bulls with goats.

¹⁶Come and hear, all you servants of god, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.
¹⁷I cried to him with my mouth, and he has answered me; I extolled him with my tongue.
¹⁸If you look at iniquity in my heart, master, do not deliver me.
¹⁹But assuredly, god has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰Blessed be god, who has not rejected my prayer, nor turned his mercy from me.

¹God be merciful to us and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us,
²that your ways may be known on land, your saving health among all nations.
³Let the people praise you, god; let all the people praise you.
⁴Let the nations be glad and sing for joy; for you will judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on land.
⁵Let the people praise you, god; let all the people praise you.

⁶Then the land will yield her increase; and god, even our own god, will bless us.
⁷God will bless us; and all the ends of the land will fear him.

¹Let god arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him also flee before him.
²As smoke is driven away, so let them vanish; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of god.
³But let the righteous be glad; let them be valiant in the sight of god; yes, let them rejoice in his pleasure.

⁴Sing to god, sing praises to his name; extol him who rides on the skies; Yahvah is his name, rejoice before him.
⁵A father of the fatherless, and a judge of widows, is god in his holy habitation.
⁶God sets the solitary child in families; he triumphantly releases those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious live in waste places.

⁷God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness,
⁸the land shook, the skies also lowered at the presence of god; even Sinai itself, was moved at the presence of god, the god of Israel.
⁹You, god, sent a plentiful rain, through which you confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
¹⁰Your living creatures have lived in it; you, god, have provided from your goodness for the poor.
¹¹Master will give good news with great power.
¹²Then the kings of armies will be defeated; and the house of god will divide the spoil.
¹³Though you sleep among thorns, yet you will be protected, as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

¹⁴When almighty appointed a king over Zalmon, it became white like snow,
¹⁵over Bashan, the mountain of god, over the mountains of Bashan and over the mountain ridges.
¹⁶What do you want, mountains of Bashan? This is the ridge which god desires to live in; yes, Yahvah will live in it forever.
¹⁷God rides with the host of angels; master is among them, as in Sinai, in his holy place.
¹⁸You have ascended on high, you have carried away captives; you have blessed men with gifts; but rebellious men will not live before the presence of god.

¹⁹Blessed be master, for he has chosen us as his heritage, even the god of our salvation.
²⁰He that is our god, is the god of salvation, Yahvah God, who has the power of life and death.
²¹But god will sever the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of the head of those who persist in their sins.
²²Master said, I will rescue my people from the cliffs, I will bring my people from the depths of the sea;
²³that your foot will be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.

²⁴They have seen your paths, god, even the paths of my god and my holy king.
²⁵The princes went before, the singers followed after; among them, were the maidens playing with timbrels.
²⁶Bless god in the congregations, even Yahvah, you who are of the fountain of Israel.
²⁷There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their governors, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

²⁸Command, god, your strength; strengthen, god, what you have worked for us.
²⁹Out of your house at Jerusalem kings will bring presents to you.
³⁰Rebuke the wild animals of the marshes, the multitude of the wild bulls, the idols of the Gentiles which are covered with silver; scatter the people who delight in war.
³¹Ambassadors will come out of Egypt; Cush will soon stretch out her hands to god.

³²Sing to god, you kingdoms of the land; sing praises to master.
³³To him who rides on the skies of skies; out of the east he gives his voice, and that a mighty voice.
³⁴Ascribe glory to god; his excellency is over Israel and his strength is in the skies.
³⁵God, you are honored out of your holy place; the god of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be god.

¹Save me, god; for the waters are come near to engulf me.
²I sink in deep mire where there is no footing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
³I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for god.

⁴Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored what I took lawfully.
⁵God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hidden from you.

⁶Do not let those who trust in you be ashamed through me, master god of hosts; do not let those who seek you be dishonored through me, god of Israel.
⁷Because, for your sake, I have borne disgrace; shame has covered my face.
⁸I have become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹For the zeal of your house has made me courageous; and the disgraces of those who disgraced you are fallen on me.
¹⁰When I humbled and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my disgrace.
¹¹I also made sackcloth my garment and I became a proverb to them.
¹²Those who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahvah, in an acceptable time; god, in the multitude of your mercy answer me, in the abundance of your salvation,
¹⁴deliver me out of the mire, and do not let me sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
¹⁵Do not let the flood overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and do not let the well shut its mouth on me.
¹⁶Answer me, Yahvah; for your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
¹⁷And do not hide your face from your servant; for I am in trouble; answer me speedily.
¹⁸Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹You know my disgrace and my shame, and my dishonor is spread before all my adversaries.
²⁰Heal my broken heart and bind it; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found not 1.
²¹They gave me bitter herbs for my food; and in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table become a snare before them; and what should have been for their reward, let it become a trap.
²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they do not see; and make their backs continually bend.
²⁴Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; and let no one live in their tents.
²⁶The one which you have struck, they have persecuted; they have added to the grief of him who is wounded.
²⁷Add punishment of iniquity to their iniquity, that they may not enter into your righteousness.
²⁸Let them be blotted out of your book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful; let your salvation help me, god.

³⁰I will praise the name of god with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
³¹This will please Yahvah better than an ox or bull that has horns and hoofs.
³²The humble will see this and be glad; and your heart will live that seek god.
³³For Yahvah hears the poor, and does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴Let the skies and land praise him, the seas, and everything in them that moves.
³⁵For god will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah;
³⁶his servants will live in it and will inherit it; those who love his name will live there.

¹Make haste, god, to deliver me; make haste to help me, Yahvah.
²Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul, let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire my hurt.
³Let them be confounded by their recurring shame that say to me, Aha, aha!

⁴Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; and let such, as love your salvation, say continually, Let god be magnified.
⁵But I am poor and needy; make haste to me, god; you are my help and my deliverer; Yahvah, do not tarry.

¹In you, Yahvah, I put my trust; let me never be confounded.
²Deliver me in your righteousness and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me.
³Be to me a sheltering rock where I may continually resort; give commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
⁴Deliver me, god, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
⁵For you are my hope, Master Yahvah; you are my trust from my youth.
⁶By you, I have been sustained from the womb; you are my hope since I was in my mother's body; my praise is continually of you.

⁷I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge.
⁸Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
⁹Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
¹⁰For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my soul take counsel together,
¹¹saying, god has forsaken him; pursue and take him; for there is no one to deliver him.

¹²God, do not be far from me; my god, make haste for my help.
¹³Let them be ashamed and embarrassed who envy my soul, let them be covered with shame that seek my hurt.
¹⁴But I will pray continually, and will praise you, yet more and more.
¹⁵My mouth will show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day, for I cannot read.
¹⁶I will go in the strength of Master Yahvah; I will make mention of your righteousness, even of you only.

¹⁷God, you have taught me from my youth, so that I might declare your wondrous works.
¹⁸Now also to old age and gray hairs, god, do not forsake me; until I have shown your strength and your might to the generation that is to come.
¹⁹Your righteousness, god, has also reached to the highest; you have done great things; god, who is like you.
²⁰You who have shown me great and severe troubles, will quicken me again, and will bring me up again from the depths of the land.
²¹You have increased my greatness, and have returned to comfort me.

²²I will also praise you with the psaltery, I will sing of your truth, my god; to you, I will sing with the harp, holy one of Israel.
²³My lips will greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
²⁴My tongue will also talk of your righteousness all the day long; for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.

¹Give the king your judgments, god, and your righteousness to the king's son,
²that he may judge your people with righteousness and your poor with justice.
³The mountains will bring peace to your people, and the hills your righteousness.
⁴He will judge the poor of the people; he will save the sons of the needy; and he will crush the oppressor.

⁵They will revere you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
⁶He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the land.
⁷In his days, the righteous will flourish, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endures.

⁸He will also have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the land.
⁹Those who live on the islands will bow before him; and his enemies will lick the dust.
¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts.
¹¹Yes, all kings will worship him, all nations will serve him.

¹²For he will deliver the needy from the mighty, also the poor, who has no helper.
¹³He will spare the poor and needy, and will save the souls of the needy.
¹⁴He will redeem their souls from deceit and violence; precious will their blood be in his sight.

¹⁵And he will live, and to him will be given of the gold of Sheba; prayer will also be made to him continually, and daily, he will be praised.
¹⁶He will multiply like wheat on the land; his seed will spring up on the mountain tops, as on Lebanon; and they of the city will flourish like grass of the land.
¹⁷His name will endure forever; his name will be continued as long as the sun; and men will be blessed in him; all nations will call him blessed.

¹⁸Blessed be Yahvah God, the god of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name forever; and let the whole land be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.

¹Truly god is good to Israel, and to those who are pure in heart.
²But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.
³For I was envious of the wicked, when I saw the prosperity of the ungodly.
⁴For there is no end to their death, and their folly is great.
⁵They do not share in the toil of men; nor are they scourged like other men.
⁶Therefore pride holds them fast; they have concealed their wickedness and ungodliness.
⁷Their iniquity comes through like grease; they do according to the evil dictates of the heart.
⁸They imagine and speak evil things: they talk unjustly against the most high.
⁹They have set their mouths in the skies, but their tongues drag in the dirt;
¹⁰therefore my people will return here, and they will have everything in abundance.
¹¹They will say, How does god know? Is there knowledge in the most high?
¹²Look, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they are strong in power.
¹³As for me, I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.
¹⁴All day long, I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.
¹⁵If I say, I will do as they do, this is sinful for me.

¹⁶When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.
¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of god; then, I understood their end.

¹⁸You appointed their portion according to their deceitfulness; you cast them down when they exalted themselves.
¹⁹How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment. They are utterly consumed with terrors.
²⁰As one who awakes from a dream, so, master, you will despise their idolatry.
²¹Thus, my heart was grieved, and my conscience troubled me.
²²I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like an animal before you.

²³You will comfort me with your counsel, and lead me according to your honor.
²⁴Who have I in the skies but you? Who have I desired on land besides you?
²⁵Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you have held me by my right hand.
²⁶My flesh and my heart fail; but god is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

²⁷For look, those who are far from you will perish; you have destroyed all those who go astray from you.
²⁸I was pleased to draw near to god; I have put my trust in Master Yahvah, that I may declare all his works.

¹God, why? Have you cast us off forever? Why has your anger become inflamed against the sheep of your flock?
²Remember your congregation which you have possessed of old; the tribe of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, in which you have lived.
³Exalt your servants over those who are carried away by power; all those who oppress are enemies of your sanctuary.

⁴Your enemies exalted themselves in the middle of your feasts; they set up their banners for signs.
⁵You know this, as the exalted one who sits on high; they have hewn down the doors with axes as they would cut the trees of the forest.
⁶They have destroyed everything with axes and hammers.
⁷They have set fire to and burned your sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling place of your name on land.
⁸They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together; let us abolish all the feast days of god from the land.

⁹They did not see its wonders; for there is not any prophet any longer, nor is there among us any wise man.
¹⁰God, how long will the adversary disgrace? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
¹¹Why withdraw your hand, even your strength from the middle of your congregation?
¹²For god is our king, who of old has commanded the salvation of Jacob.
¹³You divided the sea by your strength, you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.
¹⁴You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and you gave him as food to a strong people.
¹⁵You opened the fountains in the valleys; you dried up mighty rivers.
¹⁶The day is yours, the night is also yours; you have prepared the light and the sun.
¹⁷You have set all the borders of the land; you have made summer and winter.

¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy has disgraced, Yahvah, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
¹⁹Do not deliver to destruction the soul that confesses to you; do not forget the souls of your poor forever.

²⁰Respect your contract, Yahvah; for the habitations of the land are full of ignorance and cruelty.
²¹Do not let the oppressed return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise your name.

²²Arise, god, plead your own cause; remember how the foolish man disgraces you daily.
²³Do not forget the voice of your enemies; the tumult of those who rise up against you, ascend continually.

¹To you, god, do we give thanks, to you, do we give thanks and call on your name.
²We will declare all your wondrous works; then, the time will come when I will judge uprightly.
³Then, the land and all its inhabitants will be humbled; you have ordained its people.

⁴You said to the fools, Do not deal foolishly, and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn;
⁵do not lift up your horn on high; do not speak with a stiff neck.

⁶For defence comes neither from the west, nor from the east, nor from the desert mountains.
⁷But god is the judge; he puts down one, and sets up another.
⁸For in the hand of Yahvah there is a cup, full of a mixture of the dregs of wine; and he passes it from one to another; surely, all the wicked of the land will drink its dregs.

⁹But I will live forever; I will sing praises to the god of Jacob.
¹⁰All the horns of the wicked I will also cut off; but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.

¹In Judah god is known; his name is great in Israel.
²His tent is also in Salem, and his dwelling place in Zion.
³There, he broke the arms of the bow, the shield, and the sword, in the battle.

⁴You are all glorious and excellent from your mighty mountain.
⁵All the foolish of heart were dismayed; the mighty men of valor slept their last sleep.
⁶Their hands did not prevail because of your rebuke, god of Jacob; the horsemen are cast into a dead sleep.

⁷You, even you, are to be feared; who may stand in your sight once you are angry?
⁸You caused judgment to be heard from the skies; the land saw it and trembled
⁹when god arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the land.

¹⁰For the wisdom of man will praise you; the remainder of his wrath you will restrain.
¹¹Vow and fulfill your vows to Yahvah your god; let all who are around him bring presents to him who is to be revered.
¹²He will humble the pride of the rulers; he is dreaded by the kings of the land.

¹I cried to god with my voice, and he heard me; I have lifted up my voice to him, and he answered me.
²In the day of my trouble, I sought master; my torment continued through the night, and did not cease; there was no comforter for my soul.
³When I remembered, god, I was troubled; I meditated, and my spirit was overwhelmed.

⁴My eyes are dazed; I am mute, so that I cannot speak.
⁵I have considered the days of old; I am mindful of the years of ancient times.
⁶I meditated far into the night; I communed with my own heart; I have examined my soul and said,
⁷Has master forsaken me forever? And will he not be favorable any longer?
⁸Is his mercy gone forever? Does his promise fail forever?
⁹Has god forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, shut up his tender mercies?

¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity; it is another visitation of the power of the most high.

¹¹I will remember the works of Yahvah; surely, I will remember your wonders of old.
¹²I will also meditate on all your works, and think of your skillful actions.
¹³Your way, god, is holy; there is no one as great as our god.
¹⁴You are the god that does wonders; you have declared your strength among the people.
¹⁵With your arm, you have saved your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.

¹⁶The waters saw you, god, the waters saw you; they were afraid; the depths were also troubled.
¹⁷The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound; your arrows also flew around.
¹⁸The voice of your thunder was in the skies; the lightnings lit the world; the land trembled and shook.
¹⁹Your way is in the sea, and your path is in the great waters, but your footsteps are not seen.
²⁰You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

¹Give ear, my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
²I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter proverbs of old.
³That which we have heard and known, and which our fathers have told us,
⁴we will not hide from their sons, showing to the generation to come, the praise of Yahvah and his strength, and the wonderful works that he has done.

⁵For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers that they should make known to their sons,
⁶that the generation to come might know them, even the sons which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their sons;
⁷that they might set their hope in god, and not forget the works of god, but keep his commandments;
⁸and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with god.

⁹The sons of Ephraim, being armed and throwing forth bows, turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰For they did not keep the contract of god, and refused to walk in his law;
¹¹and forgot his works and his wonders that he had shown them in the sight of their fathers.
¹²Marvellous things he did in the land of Egypt and in the fields of Zoan.
¹³He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as in skins.
¹⁴In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
¹⁵He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink, as out of great depths.
¹⁶He also brought forth streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷But the people continued to sin, and to murmur against the most high in their thirst for water.
¹⁸And they tempted god in their hearts by asking food to satisfy their desires.
¹⁹Yes, they complained against god; they said, Can god furnish tables of food in the wilderness?
²⁰Look, he struck the rock, that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed; can he also give bread? Can he provide food for his people?

²¹Therefore Yahvah heard this and was angered; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,
²²because they did not believe in god and did not trust in his salvation,
²³though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of the skies,
²⁴and had rained down manna for them to eat and had given them of the bread of the skies.
²⁵Man ate angels' food; he sent them game in abundance.
²⁶He caused winds to blow in the skies; and by his power he brought in the south wind.
²⁷He also rained flesh on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sands of the sea;
²⁸and he let these fall in the middle of their camp, around their tents.
²⁹So they ate and were well filled; for he gave them their own desire.
³⁰They did not relinquish their craving. But while their food was yet in their mouths,
³¹the anger of god came on them and slew the richest of them, and made to bow, the chosen men of Israel.

³²Nevertheless, they sinned still, and did not believe in his wondrous works.
³³Therefore their days were spent in emptiness, and their years in impatience.
³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him; and they returned and drew nearer to him.
³⁵And they remembered that god was their helper, and the high god their savior.
³⁶Nevertheless, they loved him with their mouths, and they lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷For their hearts were not right with him, nor were they steadfast in his contract.
³⁸He is merciful, the forgiver of sins, and does not destroy; yes, many a time, he turned his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away and does not come again.
⁴⁰How often they provoked him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.
⁴¹Yes, they turned back and tempted god, and defied the holy one of Israel.
⁴²They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
⁴³how he had worked his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴nor how he had turned their rivers into blood and their brooks, that they could not drink.
⁴⁵He sent an arab among them, who devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶He also gave their crops to the locusts, and their labor to the caterpillars.
⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail and their fig trees with frost.
⁴⁸He also gave up their cattle to the hail and their flocks to destruction.
⁴⁹He cast on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, by the hand of an evil angel.
⁵⁰He resorted to strong measures; he did not spare their souls from death, and gave their cattle over to the pestilence;
⁵¹and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the fairest of their sons in the tents of Ham;
⁵²but he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
⁵³And he led them on safely so that they did not fear; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had possessed.
⁵⁵He cast out the Gentiles from before them, and allotted them an inheritance by measure, and made the tribes of Israel to live in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted and provoked the most high god, and did not keep his testimonies;
⁵⁷but turned back and dealt deceitfully like their fathers; they were crooked like a twisted bow.
⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger by sacrificing on high places, and made him indignant with their graven images.
⁵⁹When god heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
⁶⁰so that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
⁶¹and he delivered his people into captivity, and his glory into the oppressor's hand.
⁶²He delivered his people to the sword, and disregarded his inheritance.
⁶³The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were violated.
⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵Then master awoke, as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man who has shaken off the effects of wine.
⁶⁶And he caused his enemies to retreat; he put them to a perpetual disgrace.

⁶⁷Moreover, he refused the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
⁶⁸but chose the tribe of Judah, mount Zion, which he loved.
⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary on a high place, and he established it on the land forever.
⁷⁰He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹from following the ewes that nurse, he brought him to feed Jacob, his people, and Israel his inheritance.
⁷²So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

¹God, the heathen have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy house; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
²The dead bodies of your servants, they have given to be meat, to the birds of the skies, the flesh of your saints, to the animals of the land.
³Their blood, they have shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was no one to bury them.
⁴We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are around us.

⁵How long, Yahvah? Will you be angry forever? Will your anger burn like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the heathen that have not known you, and on the kingdoms that have not called on your name,
⁷for they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

⁸Do not remember against us our former sins; let your tender mercies speedily overtake us; for we are brought very low.
⁹Help us, god of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and deliver us and purge away our sins, for your name's sake.
¹⁰Why should the heathen say, Where is their god? Let him be known among the heathen in our sight, by the revenging of the blood of your servants, which is shed.

¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power, free those who are appointed to die.
¹²And render to our neighbors 7-fold into their embrace, their disgrace, with which they have disgraced you, master.
¹³So we your people, and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever; we will tell your wonders to all generations.

¹Give ear, shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sits on the cherubim, shine forth.
²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, show forth your strength and come and save us.

³Guide us again, mighty god, and cause your face to shine; and we will be saved.

⁴Yahvah, god of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
⁵You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
⁶You have made us a jest to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Guide us again, god of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we will be saved.

⁸You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the heathen and planted it.
⁹You prepared the ground and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and its vine shoots were on the cedars of god.
¹¹It sent out its roots to the sea, and its branches to the rivers.
¹²Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all who pass by the way tread over it?
¹³The boar of the forest devours it, and the wild animals of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Return, we beg you, god of hosts; look down from the skies, and look, and visit this vine
¹⁵and the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶It is burned with fire; it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
¹⁷Let your right hand be on the man and on the son of man, whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁸So we will not go back from you; quicken us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Guide us again, Yahvah, god of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we will be saved.

¹Sing aloud to god our strength; make a joyful noise to the god of Jacob.
²Take a psalm and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
³Blow trumpets in the new month in the time appointed, on our solemn feast days.

⁴For this was a statute for Israel and a law of the god of Jacob.
⁵This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out of the land of Egypt, where he heard a language that he did not understand.
⁶I removed the yoke from his shoulder, I released his hands from the bonds.
⁷He called on me in trouble, and I delivered him; I sheltered him under my glorious cover; I tested him at the waters of dispute.

⁸Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, I will testify about you. If you listen to me;
⁹there will not be a strange god in you; nor will you worship any strange god.
¹⁰I am Yahvah your god, which brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.
¹²So they walked according to the desires of their own hearts and according to their own counsels.
¹³That my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways.
¹⁴I would soon have destroyed their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
¹⁵The haters of Yahvah have lied to him; but they will tremble forever.
¹⁶He has also fed them with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock, he has satisfied them.

¹God stands in the congregation of angels; he judges among the angels.
²How long will you judge unjustly, and be partial to the wicked?

³Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
⁴Deliver the poor and needy out of the hand of the wicked.

⁵They do not know, nor will they understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the land are shaken.

⁶I have said, You are gods; all of you are sons of the most high.
⁷From now on, you will die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

⁸Arise, god, judge the land; for you will inherit all nations.

¹God, who is like you? Do not hold your peace, and do not be still, god;
²for look, your enemies are raging and those who hate you have lifted up the head against your people.
³They have taken crafty counsel, and consulted against your chosen ones.
⁴They have said, Come, let us destroy them from among the nations, that the name of Israel may not be in remembrance any longer.
⁵For they have agreed with 1 heart; they have made alliance against you;
⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; of Moab and the sons of Hagar;
⁷the people of the region of Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸the Assyrians have also joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot.

⁹Do to them like the Midianites; like Sisera, like Jabin, at the valley of Kishon;
¹⁰which perished at Endor; they became as manure for the land.
¹¹Destroy their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb; yes, all their princes, as Zebah and as Zalmunna;
¹²for they said, Let us inherit for ourselves the city of god.

¹³God, make them like a turning wheel; and like stubble before the wind.
¹⁴As the fire burns a forest and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
¹⁵so persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, Yahvah.
¹⁷Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish,
¹⁸that men may know that you, whose name alone is Yahvah, are the most high over all the land.

¹How amiable are your tents, Yahvah of hosts.
²My soul longs, yes, even faints, for the courts of Yahvah; my heart and my flesh give praise for the living god.

³Yes, even the sparrow has found a house, and the pigeon a nest for herself, where they have raised their young beside your altars, Yahvah of hosts, my king, and my god.
⁴Blessed are those who live in your house; they will praise you forever.

⁵Blessed is the man whose help is from you; in whose heart are your ways.
⁶They have passed through the valley of weeping, and have made it a dwelling place; the lawgiver will cover it with blessings;
⁷they will go from strength to strength; the god of gods will be seen in Zion.

⁸Yahvah, god of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, god of Jacob.
⁹Look, god our shield, and look on the face of your anointed.

¹⁰For 1 day in your courts is better than 1,000 elsewhere. I would choose rather to live in the house of my god than to live in the tents of the wicked.
¹¹For Yahvah God is our supply and our helper; Yahvah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
¹²Yahvah of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

¹Yahvah, you have been favorable to your land; you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
²You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin.
³You have taken away all your wrath; you have withdrawn the fierceness of your anger.

⁴Restore us, god our savior, and cause your anger toward us to cease.
⁵Do not be angry with us forever; do not hold your anger against all generations.
⁶Restore us and revive us, that your people may rejoice in you.
⁷Show us your mercy, Yahvah, and grant us your salvation.

⁸We will hear what Yahvah our god will speak; for he will speak peace to his people and to his saints, that they may not turn again to folly.
⁹Surely, his salvation is near those who reverence him; let his glory live in our land.

¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
¹¹Truth will spring out of the land; and righteousness will look down from the skies.
¹²Yes, Yahvah will give his goodness; and the land will yield its fruits.
¹³And the righteous will go before him; and he will establish his ways on the land.

¹Incline your ear, Yahvah; hear me, for I am poor and needy.
²Preserve my soul, for you are holy; god, save your servant who trusts in you.
³Be merciful to me, master; for I cry to you daily.
⁴Rejoice the soul of your servant; for to you, master, I lift up my soul.
⁵For you, master, are good; and your loving kindness is abundant to all who call on you.
⁶Give ear, Yahvah, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
⁷In the day of my trouble, I have called on you, and you have answered me.

⁸There is no one like you, my master god; nor are there any works like your works.
⁹All the nations whom you have made, will come and worship before you, master, and will glorify your name.
¹⁰For you are great, and do wondrous things; you are god alone.
¹¹Show me your way, Yahvah; I will walk in the truth; my heart will rejoice with those who worship your name.
¹²I will praise you, my master god, with all my heart; and I will glorify your name forever.
¹³For great is your loving kindness toward me; and you have delivered my soul from the depths of hell.

¹⁴God, the wicked are risen against me, and the assembly of violent men has sought after my soul; and they have not been mindful of you.
¹⁵But you, master god, are full of compassion and gracious, long suffering and plentiful in mercy and truth.
¹⁶Turn to me and have mercy on me; give strength to your servant, and save the son of your maid.
¹⁷Show me a token for good, that they which hate me, may see it and be ashamed, because you, Yahvah, have helped me and comforted me.

¹Her foundations are on his holy mountain.
²Yahvah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
³Glorious things are spoken of you, city of our god.

⁴I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon, for they know my power; look, the Philistines and Tyre, and the people of Cush; it will be said, this man was born there.
⁵And of Zion, it will be said, This mighty man was born in her; and the same will establish her.
⁶Yahvah will number his people in the book: This man was born there.

⁷The princes who live in you will rejoice, and all that are humbled in you.

¹Yahvah, god of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you;
²let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my supplication.

³For my soul is full of troubles and my life draws near to the grave.
⁴I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am like a man who has no strength;
⁵like a nobleman abandoned among the dead, like the slain that lie down in the grave, whom you do not remember any longer; they are lost to you.
⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the shadow of death.
⁷Your wrath rests hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves.

⁸You have put away my acquaintances far from me; you have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up and I cannot come out.
⁹My eyes are weakened from weeping; Yahvah, I have called daily on you; I have stretched out my hands to you.
¹⁰Look, you will show wonders to the dead; the mighty ones will rise and praise you.
¹¹Those who are in the graves will declare your lovingkindness, and your faithfulness in destruction.
¹²Your wonders will be known in the dark, and your righteousness in the land that has been forsaken.

¹³But to you I have cried, Yahvah; and early in the morning will my prayer come before you.
¹⁴Yahvah, do not forsake my soul, and do not turn your face from me.
¹⁵I am poor and afflicted from my youth; I have been proud, but now I am humbled and crushed.
¹⁶Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have silenced me.
¹⁷They came around me daily like water; they set themselves in array against me.
¹⁸Friends and neighbors you have put far from me, and my acquaintances you have kept away from me.

¹I will sing of the mercies of Yahvah forever; with my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
²For I have said, The world will be built up with mercy; your faithfulness you will establish in the very skies.
³I have made a contract with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,
⁴your offspring I will establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations.

⁵And the skies will praise your wonders, Yahvah, also your faithfulness in the congregation of the saints.
⁶For who, in the skies, can be compared to Yahvah? Who, among the angels, can be likened to Yahvah?
⁷God stands forth in the assembly of the saints, great and revered above all that are about him.
⁸Yahvah, god of hosts, who is mighty like you? Your faithfulness is around you.
⁹You rule the splendor of the sea; you still its waves.
¹⁰You have humbled the proud as those who are slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
¹¹The skies are yours, the land is also yours; as for the world and its fullness, you have founded them.
¹²The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon glorify your name.
¹³Yours is the arm, and yours is the might; your hand is strong and your right hand will be exalted.
¹⁴Your throne is built on righteousness and judgment; mercy and truth go before your face.
¹⁵Blessed is the people that understand your glory; they will walk, Yahvah, in the light of your countenance.
¹⁶In your name, they will rejoice all the day; and in your righteousness, they will be exalted.
¹⁷For you are the glory of our strength; and in your favor, our horn will be exalted.
¹⁸For Yahvah is our hope; and the holy one of Israel is our king.

¹⁹Then he spoke in visions to his righteous one, and he said, I have given help to a man; I have exalted 1, chosen out of the people.
²⁰I have found David my servant; with my holy oil, I have anointed him.
²¹My hand has helped him; my arm has also strengthened him.
²²The enemy will not prevail on him, nor the sons of the wicked afflict him.
²³And I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him.
²⁴But my faithfulness and my mercy will be with him; and in my name, his horn will be exalted.
²⁵I will also set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
²⁶He will cry to me, You are my father, my god, and my mighty savior.
²⁷I will also make him my firstborn, and will exalt him over the kings of the land.
²⁸My mercy, I will keep for him forever, and my contract will stand fast with him.
²⁹His offspring, I will also make endure forever, and his throne, as the days of the skies.
³⁰If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments;
³¹if they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments;
³²then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
³³Nevertheless, my lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor permit my faithfulness to fail.
³⁴Neither will I reject my contract, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
³⁵Once I have sworn by my holiness to David, and I will not lie,
³⁶his offspring will endure forever, and his throne, as the sun before me.
³⁷It will be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in the skies.

³⁸But you have forsaken us and despised us, you have made your anointed one to turn his face.
³⁹You have rejected the contract of your servant; you have cast his crown to the ground.
⁴⁰You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.
⁴¹All that pass by have trampled on him; he has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
⁴²You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.
⁴³You have turned the edge of his sword, and have not sustained him in the battle.
⁴⁴You have made his glory cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
⁴⁵The days of his youth you have shortened; you have covered him with shame.

⁴⁶How long, Yahvah, will you be angry? Forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷Remember me from the time I was created; for you have not created all men in vain.
⁴⁸Who is the man who lives and will not see death? Will he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?

⁴⁹Master, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?
⁵⁰Remember, master, the disgrace of your servants; for I have borne throughout my life the mockery of the Gentiles;
⁵¹with which your enemies have disgraced me, Yahvah; with which they have disgraced the footsteps of your anointed.

⁵²Blessed be Yahvah forever. Amen and Amen.

¹Master, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
²Before the mountains were brought forth, or you had ever formed the land and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are god.

³You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you sons of men.
⁴For 1,000 years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵The span of their life will be as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which changes.
⁶In the morning, it flourishes and grows up; in the evening, it is cut down and withers.