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Psalm 1

1. Blessed the fellow who has not walked

in the counsel of the wicked;

nor loitered along the path of sinners;

nor sat in the seat of the pestilent.

2. But whose delight is in the law

of the Lord;

meditating on the law day and night.

3. Such a person will be like a tree planted by babbling brooks,

a tree which will yield its fruit

in due season,

and its leaves shall not wither and fall.

Whatever that one does shall prosper.

4. Not so the wicked, not so;

rather they are like the chaff

which the wind scatters

from the face of the earth.

5. Therefore the wicked shall not stand up in judgment,

nor sinners in the counsel of the righteous.

6. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous;

but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 2

1. Why did the nations rage? And peoples imagine vain things?

2. The kings of the earth rose up and the rulers assembled together,

against the Lord and against his Anointed; saying:

3. Let us break their bonds asunder and throw off from us their yoke.

4. The one who dwells in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn;

the Lord will treat them with derision.

5. Then will he address them

in his wrath,

and cause them distress in his fury.

6. But as for me, I was made king by him on Zion, his holy mountain,

7. announcing the Lord’s decree—

the Lord said to me:

“You are my Son, today I have

begotten you.

8. Ask me, and I will bequeath you the nations as your inheritance,

and the ends of the earth for your possession.

9. You shall rule them with a rod of iron;

you shall dash them in pieces as a potter’s jar.”

10. Now therefore, O kings understand:

be instructed all you who judge

the earth.

11. Serve the Lord with fear,

and rejoice in him with trembling.

12. Hold fast to instruction lest the Lord be angry,

and you should fall away from the

right path.

Whenever his indignation is suddenly kindled,

happy are all those who have trusted

in him.

Psalm 3

1. O Lord, why have those who afflict me multiplied?

Many rise up against me.

2. Regarding my life, many say,

“There is no deliverance for this one

in God.”

3. But you O Lord are my protector;

my glory and the lifter of my head.

4. I cried aloud to the Lord,

and from the holy mountain he

heard me.

5. I laid down to rest and slept;

then I awoke because the Lord

protects me.

6. I will not fear myriads of people;

encircling round about to beset me.

7. Arise O Lord; save me my God!

You have smitten all who were my enemies without cause.

You have broken the teeth of sinners.

8. Deliverance belongs to the Lord!

Let your blessing be upon your people.

Psalm 4

1. When I called out,

my righteous God heard me.

In the midst of distress you have given me space;

be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

2. O you children of earth, how long will your hearts be weighed down?

Why do you love vanity, and seek after falsehood?

3. Know that the Lord has worked marvels for his holy one;

the Lord will hear me when I cry out

to him.

4. Be provoked to anger, but sin not.

What you say in your hearts,

feel compunction for upon your beds.

5. Offer a sacrifice of righteousness,

and trust in the Lord.

6. Many say, “Who will show us

good things?”

The light of your countenance, O Lord, has been revealed to us.

7. You have put gladness into my heart;

they have been filled with an abundance of grain, wine, and oil.

8. Now I will lie down in peace and truly sleep,

for only you, O Lord, have caused me to dwell securely.

Psalm 5

1. Hearken to my words, O Lord;

attend to my cry.

2. Listen to the sound of my plea, my Sovereign and my God!

For to you, O Lord, I will pray.

3. In the morning you shall hear

my voice;

in the morning I will wait for you and raise my eyes.

4. For you are not a God who desires iniquity;

therefore the wicked shall not dwell with you.

5. Nor shall the transgressors remain in your presence;

You, O Lord, hate all who do evil.

6. You will destroy all who lie;

the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful fellow.

7. As for me, because of your abundant mercy I will enter your house;

I will worship before your holy temple, in reverence of you.

8. Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies;

make my path straight before you.

9. For there is no truth in their mouth;

their heart is vain; their throat an

open grave;

with their tongues they have

spoken deceit.

10. Judge them, O God! Let them fall by their own devices;

according to the multitude of their crimes cast them out;

because they have provoked you,

O Lord.

11. But let all who trust in you, rejoice.

They shall exult forever and you will dwell among them.

All who love your name shall glory

in you.

12. For you, O Lord, will bless the righteous;

You have bestowed us with an armor of favor.

Psalm 6

1. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath,

nor reprove me in your anger.

2. Pity me, O Lord, for I am weak.

Heal me, O Lord, for I am troubled to my bones.

3. My soul is vexed exceedingly;

but O Lord, for how much longer?

4. Return, O Lord, deliver my soul;

save me for your mercy’s sake.

5. For in death no one mentions you;

in Hades who will give you thanks?

6. I am weary with my groaning.

Every night I bedew my bed

and drench my couch with my tears.

7. My sight is troubled because of

my wrath;

I am worn down in the midst of my enemies.

8. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,

for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

9. The Lord has heard my supplication;

the Lord has accepted my prayer.

10. Let all my enemies be put to shame and greatly troubled.

Let them be turned back and quickly put to shame.

Psalm 7

1. O Lord, my God, in you have I placed my trust.

Save me from all my persecutors and deliver me,

2. lest at any moment my enemy seize me like a lion,

while there is no one to ransom me, none to save me.

3. O Lord, my God, if I have done this—

if there be iniquity on my hands;

4. if I have requited with evil those who did me wrong;

then let me fall empty-handed at my enemies’ hands.

5. Let the enemy pursue my soul and take it;

let him trample my life to the ground,

and cause my honor to lay in the dust.

6. Arise, O Lord, in your indignation.

Be exalted to the boundaries of

my enemies.

Awake, O Lord my God, according to the judgment you decreed.

7. And when the assembly of the peoples encompasses you,

ascend on high above them.

8. The Lord will judge the peoples.

Judge me O Lord according to my righteousness;

and according to my innocence

be for me.

9. Let the wickedness of sinners be brought to an end.

You will indeed direct the righteous,

O God who searches the hearts and innermost being. . . .

14. Behold my enemy has travailed with injustice;

has conceived trouble and given birth to iniquity.

15. He has dug a pit and covered it;

into the trench which he dug,

he will fall.

16. His mischief will return upon his own head;

on his forehead his injustice will fall.

17. Because of the Lord’s righteousness

I will give thanks;

I will sing praises to the name of the Lord Most High.

Psalm 8

1. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth;

for your magnificence is exalted above the heavens!

2. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise,

on account of your enemies, so as to destroy the enemy and avenger.

3. When I survey the heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars which you have established,

4. what is a human being that you should be mindful of him?

or a mere mortal that you should

visit him?

5. You made him a little lower than the angels,

with glory and honor you crowned him,

6. and set him over the work of your hands.

You have put all things under his feet:

7. all flocks and herds,

even beasts of the field,

8. birds of the air and fishes of the sea,

all creatures traversing the salty paths.

9. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 9

1. I will praise you, O Lord, with my whole heart,

I will recount all your marvelous deeds.

2. I will be glad and rejoice in you;

to your name I will sing, O Most High.

3. When my enemies are turned back,

they shall grow faint and perish in your presence,

4. for you have upheld my cause

and my right.

You sat upon the throne,

O Righteous Judge.

5. You have rebuked the nations,

and the ungodly have perished.

You have blotted out their name forever,

even for ages and ages. . . .

7. But the Lord endures forever,

and prepares his throne for judgment;

8. This one will judge the world in righteousness,

and will pass judgment with rectitude.

9. The Lord has been a refuge for the distressed,

a propitious helper in time of affliction.

10. Let those who know your name place their hope in you,

for you, O Lord, have not failed those who fervently seek you.

Psalm 11

1. Save me, O Lord, for the godly one has failed,

for truths are scarce among the children of the earth.

2. They spoke empty words, one to another, neighbor to neighbor,

their lips are deceitful; they have spoken with a duplicitous heart.

3. May the Lord destroy all lying lips,

and the tongue which wags with wonderful words!

4. those who boast: “We will magnify our own tongue,

our lips are our own, who is the Lord

to us?”

5. “Because of the oppression of

the poor,

because of the groans of the needy,

now will I arise,” declares the Lord.

“I will set them in safety and speak about it boldly.”

6. The utterances of the Lord are pure—

as silver refined in the fire,

tested in the fiery furnace,

purified seven times over.

7. You, O Lord, will keep us and preserve us,

from this generation and forever more.

8. The wicked walk round and round

in circles,

in your greatness you have observed carefully the children of the earth.

Psalm 12

1. How long, O Lord will you forget me, forever?

How long will you turn your face away from me?

2. How long shall I ponder counsels in my mind and sorrows in my heart?

How long shall my enemy be left to exalt over me?

3. Look down and listen to me, O Lord my God.

Enlighten my eyes lest I sleep in death;

4. lest my enemy gloat: “I prevailed against him.”

Those who afflict me will rejoice if I be moved.

5. But I have placed my trust in your mercy;

my heart will rejoice in your salvation.

6. I will sing to the Lord my great benefactor;

I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.

Psalm 13

1. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt and abominable in their designs.

There is none who does good; no, not even one.

2. The Lord looked down from heaven

upon the children of the earth,

to see if there were any

who understood or sought after God.

3. They have all gone astray, altogether become vile.

There is none who does good; no, not even one.

Their throat is an open grave;

with their tongues they have spoken deceit.

The viper’s poison drools from their lips;

their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness;

their feet are swift to shed blood;

destruction and misery fill their paths.

The path to peace they have not known;

there is no fear of God before their eyes.

4. Will all the workers of iniquity remain ignorant?

They devour my people like bread;

they have not called upon the Lord.

5. They were seized with terror,

where there was no cause for fear,

for God dwells among a righteous generation.

6. You are ashamed of the counsel

of the poor,

because the Lord is their hope.

7. Who from Zion will bring Israel’s salvation?

When the Lord brings back his captive people,

let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.

Psalm 14

1. O Lord, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?

And who shall encamp on your holy mountain?

2. Whoever walks blamelessly,

and practices righteousness,

speaking truth from the heart.

3. Who has not deceived with the tongue,

nor done evil to neighbor,

nor given them reproach.

4. In whose sight an evil-doer is discounted,

while honoring all who fear the Lord.

Who makes an oath to a neighbor

and does not renege.

5. Who has not lent money at interest,

nor taken bribes against the innocent.

Whoever acts likes this,

shall never be shaken.

Psalm 15

1. Preserve me, O Lord,

for I have placed my hope in you.

2. I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord;

for you have no need of my goods.”

3. Because of the holy places which are in his land,

he has marvelously displayed all his designs in them.

4. Their infirmities were multiplied,

to these holy places they hastened.

I will no longer assemble meetings for blood-vengeance,

neither will I remember their names upon my lips.

5. The Lord is the portion of my heritage and my cup;

You are the one who restores me my rightful inheritance.

6. The boundaries have fallen to me in the best of places,

for this inheritance of mine is the best for me.

7. I will bless the Lord who has granted me understanding,

even during the night my instincts have instructed me.

8. I saw the Lord continually before me,

at my right hand that I should not be shaken.

9. Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted;

furthermore my flesh shall dwell

in the hope

10. that you will not leave my soul

in Hades,

nor allow your holy one to see corruption.

11. You have made known to me the paths of life.

You will fill me with joy with your presence;

at your right hand there are delights forever.

Psalm 16

1. Give heed, O Lord, to my justification;

and attend to my supplication.

Give ear to my prayer,

not made with deceitful lips.

2. Let my judgment come forth from your presence;

let my eyes behold your equity.

3. You have proved my heart;

you have visited me by night.

You have tested me as by fire,

and found in me no wrong.

4. May my mouth not speak the deeds of these fellows.

I, because of the words of your lips,

guarded myself against hardened ways.

5. Direct my footsteps in your paths,

so that my steps may not stumble.

6. I cried out, because you, O God, had heard me.

Incline your ears to me and give heed to my words.

7. Display your mercy in wondrous fashion,

O, you, who with your right hand,

save from their adversaries,

those who place their hope in you.

8. Guard me as the apple of your eye.

In the shadow of your wings you will shelter me

9. from the presence of the wicked who afflict me.

My enemies have encompassed my soul.

10. They have sealed themselves up with their fat.

With their mouths they have spoken proudly.

11. They have cast me out and now encircle me,

with their eyes cast down, inclined to the ground.

12. They laid wait for me like a lion eager for prey,

like a lion’s whelp lurking in hidden places.

13. Arise, O Lord, thwart them and cause them to stumble.

Deliver my soul from the ungodly.

Wrest your sword from your enemies’ hands.

14. O Lord, destroy them from

the earth;

scatter them in their lifetime.

Though their belly was filled from your storehouse,

they satiated themselves with swine

and left the remains for their children.

15. But as for me, I shall appear before you in righteousness;

and I shall be satisfied when your glory appears.

Psalm 17

1. I will love you, O Lord, my strength.

2. The Lord is my support, my refuge, and my deliverer.

My God is my helper in whom

I will trust:

my protector, the horn of my salvation and my defender. . . .

25. With the holy you will be holy;

and with the innocent you will be innocent.

26. With the favored you will

show favor,

and with the cunning you will be cunning.

27. For you will save the lowly,

and humble the eyes of the proud.

28. For you, O Lord, will light my lamp;

my God will shed light on my darkness.

29. Because of you I shall be delivered from a roving band;

and because of my God I shall leap

over a wall.

30. As for my God, his way is faultless;

the oracles of the Lord are tried in fire;

my God, a Protector of all who

have hope.

31. For who is God besides the Lord?

And who is God except our God?

Psalm 18

1. The heavens declare the glory of God;

the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

2. Day unto day utters a word,

night unto night announces knowledge.

3. There are no speeches nor

are there words

in which their voices are not heard.

4. To every land their voice has

gone forth,

and their message, to the ends

of the world.

In the sun he has placed his tabernacle.

5. He is like a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber.

He will rejoice as a giant about to run his course.

6. His going forth is from the one end

of heaven,

and his circuitous route to the other end thereof;

no one shall be hidden from his

radiant heat.

7. The law of the Lord is perfect,

converting souls.

The testimony of the Lord is faithful,

making infants wise.

8. The statutes of the Lord are right,

rejoicing the heart.

The command of the Lord is bright,

enlightening the eyes.

9. The fear of the Lord is pure,

enduring forever.

The judgments of the Lord are true,

justified as being so;

10. more to be desired than gold,

or many precious stones,

sweeter than honey,

or the honeycomb.

11. These indeed your servant keeps,

in keeping them there is great reward.

12. Who will understand transgressions?

Purge me from my hidden sins,

13. and from those of others, spare your servant.

If they do not gain dominion over me,

then will I be blameless,

and clean from great sin.

14. Thus the words of my mouth,

and the meditations of my heart,

will be continually pleasing

in your sight,

O Lord, my helper and my redeemer.

Psalm 21

1. O God, my God, attend to me; why have you forsaken me?

Far be my salvation from the account of my transgressions!

2. O my God, shall I cry to you by day and you not listen?

cry to you by night and it all be in vain?

3. You indeed dwell in a holy sanctuary,

you the praise of Israel.

4. Our ancestors placed their hope

in you,

they hoped and you delivered them.

5. They cried out to you and were saved;

in you they trusted and were not put

to shame.

6. But I am a worm, not even

a human being;

a reproach to all, the contempt

of people.

7. All who have seen me laughed me

to scorn;

they spoke openly and shook

their heads:

8. “He hoped in the Lord, let him

deliver him,

let him save him, since he delights

in him.”

9. For you are the one who drew me out of the womb;

my hope from my mother’s breast.

10. I was cast on you since

my very birth;

from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

11. Don’t keep aloof from me, for trouble is near,

for there is no helper, [save you].

12. Many bulls have encompassed me—

fat bulls beset me round about.

13. Against me they have opened wide their mouth,

like a ravenous lion, a roaring lion.

14. I am poured out like water

and all my bones are distended;

my heart sinks within me like

melted wax.

15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd,

and my tongue is glued to my palate;

you have brought me down to the dust of death.

16. For many dogs have encircled me;

the assembly of the wicked has encompassed me;

they have pierced my hands

and my feet.

17. They have numbered all my bones,

have stared at me, observing me.

18. They distributed my garments among themselves,

and have cast lots for my raiment.

19. Therefore, O Lord, delay

not my help.

Draw near to my assistance.

20. Deliver my soul from the sword;

my only-begotten from the power

of the dog.

21. Rescue me from the mouth

of the lion;

and this lowliness of mine from the unicorns’ horns.

22. I will declare your name to

my brethren;

in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to you.

23. Let those who fear the Lord

praise him!

All you offspring of Jacob glorify

the Lord!

Let all the seed of Israel fear him!

Psalm 22

1. The Lord tends to me as a shepherd,

thus I shall want nothing;

2. in a verdant pasture, has caused me

to dwell;

near restful waters, has refreshed me.

3. The Lord has restored my soul,

guided me on the paths of righteousness,

for the sake of the Lord’s name.

4. For even if I walk in the midst of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evils, for you are with me;

your rod and your staff, these have comforted me.

5. You have prepared a table before me,

in the presence of those who afflict me.

You have anointed my head with

fine oil,

and your cup of choice wine is

the very best.

6. Surely your mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;

and my dwelling shall be in the Lord’s house to the length of days.

Psalm 24

1. To you, O Lord, I have lifted up

my soul.

2. O my God, in you have I placed

my trust;

let me not be ashamed,

nor let my enemies deride me.

3. For none who wait on you shall be put to shame;

let them be ashamed who vainly transgress.

4. Show me your ways, O Lord,

and teach me your paths.

5. Lead me in your truth, and teach me;

for you O God, are my Savior—

for you have I waited all the day long.

6. Remember your compassion, O Lord,

and your tender mercy,

for they are from everlasting.

7. Remember not the sins and follies of my youth,

but according to your mercy

remember me,

for your goodness’ sake, O Lord. . . .

16. Look down upon me and have mercy,

for I am an only child and poor.

17. The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied;

deliver me from all my distresses.

18. Behold my humiliation and my trouble,

and forgive me all my sins.

19. Behold my enemies for they have increased;

they have hated me with an unjust hatred.

20. O preserve my soul and deliver me;

let me not be put to shame,

for I have placed my hope in you.

21. The innocent and upright

clung to me,

because I waited for you, O Lord.

22. God redeem Israel from all affliction!

Psalm 25

1. Judge me, O Lord, for I have conducted myself in innocence;

trusting in the Lord I shall not

be shaken.

2. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me:

purify my innermost being and

my heart.

3. For your mercy is ever before

my eyes,

and I have taken delight in your truth.

4. I have not sat with the council

of the vain,

and will not enter the company of transgressors.

5. I have hated the assembly

of the wicked,

and will not take my seat among

the godless.

6. I will wash my hands in innocence,

and will walk round your altar, O Lord,

7. that I may hear the sound of praise,

and declare all your wonderful deeds.

8. O Lord, I have loved the beauty of your house,

and the abode of the tabernacle

of your glory.

9. Destroy not my life with the ungodly,

nor my life with blood-thirsty fellows

10. in whose hands are iniquities,

and whose right hand is filled with bribes.

11. Whereas I have conducted myself

in innocence;

redeem me and be merciful to me.

12. My footsteps have been in rectitude;

in the assemblies I will bless you,

O Lord.

Psalm 26

1. The Lord is my Light and my Savior;

whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the Defender of my life;

of whom shall I be afraid?

2. When evil-doers drew near

to devour my flesh;

my persecutors and my enemies,

they fainted and fell.

3. Though an army be arrayed

against me,

my heart will not succumb to fear.

Though a war should be waged

against me,

in this I place my hope:

4. One thing I asked of the Lord,

this will I eagerly seek:

that I may dwell in the house

of the Lord

all the days of my life;

that I may behold the beauty of the Lord

and survey God’s temple. . . .

7. Hear, O Lord, my wail which

I uttered;

have mercy on me and hearken to me.

8. To you my heart said, “I have sought your face.”

Your face, O Lord, will I continue

to seek.

9. Turn not your face away from me,

withdraw not in anger from your servant.

Be my helper, forsake me not.

O God, my Savior, overlook me not.

10. For my father and mother have forsaken me,

but the Lord has taken me in.

11. Instruct me, O Lord, in your way,

and guide me in the right path, mindful of my enemies.

12. Deliver me not to the will of those who afflict me;

for unjust witnesses have risen up against me,

and injustice has lied to her very self.

13. I believe I shall see

the goodness of the Lord

in the land of the living.

14. Wait on the Lord and be of

good courage!

Let your heart be strengthened and wait on the Lord!

Psalm 27

1. To you, O Lord, I have cried:

My God, do not pass me by in silence.

If you should pass me by in silence,

I shall be like those who go down

to the Pit.

2. Hearken to the sound of my supplication,

when I pray to you,

when I lift up my hands to your holy temple.

3. Do not draw my life away

with sinners,

nor destroy me with the workers

of iniquity,

with those who speak of peace with their neighbors,

yet conceive mischief in their hearts.

4. Requite them according

to their deeds,

according to the wickedness

of their designs.

Give to them according to the works

of their hands;

render their full recompense to them.

5. Because they ignored the works

of the Lord

and the operations of his hand,

you will pull them down,

and never rebuild them. . . .

9. Save your people,

and bless your inheritance.

Shepherd them,

and lift them up forever.

Psalm 29

1. I will extol you, O Lord, for you upheld me,

and did not allow my enemies to rejoice over me.

2. O Lord my God, to you I cried,

and you healed me.

3. O Lord, you have raised my soul

from Hades,

and delivered me from among those who descend to the Pit. . . .

8. To you, O Lord, I will I cry;

and to my God will I make supplication.

9. What profit is there in my blood,

by my going down to destruction?

Can dust give you praise,

or shall it declare your truth?

10. The Lord heard and had compassion upon me;

the Lord has become my helper.

11. You transformed my mourning

into joy;

you ripped my sackcloth from off of me

and girded me with gladness,

12. that my glory may sing praise to you

and I may no longer be pierced

with sorrow.

O Lord my God,

I will give thanks to you forever.

Psalm 30

1. In you, O Lord, I have trusted; let me never be put to shame.

because of your righteousness rescue me and deliver me.

2. Incline your ear to me; hasten to deliver me!

Be for me a protecting God and a house of refuge to save me.

3. For you are my strength

and my refuge;

therefore for your name’s sake you will guide me and sustain me.

4. You will lead me out of the snare they have hidden for me;

because you, O Lord, are my protector.

5. Into your hands I commit my spirit;

you have redeemed me O Lord,

God of Truth.

6. You have hated those who waste their time with vanities;

but as for me, I have placed my hope in the Lord.

7. I will exult with joy and be glad in your mercy,

because you have looked upon my humiliation,

and have saved my soul from many distresses.

8. You have not hemmed me in within my enemies’ grasp;

instead you have established my footsteps in a broad expanse.

9. Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted,

with indignation my eye was troubled,

my soul and even my bosom.

10. For my life has been spent with grief,

and my years consumed with groaning;

my strength has been weakened through poverty,

and all my bones have experienced trouble.

11. Among all my enemies I have become a reproach;

and especially so to all my neighbors,

even an object of terror to my friends.

They who saw me out and about fled from me.

12. I have been forgotten as

someone dead,

no longer remembered;

I have become like a shattered vessel.

13. For I have heard the slander of many who dwelt round me,

when they assembled together, arrayed against me,

they plotted how to take my life.

14. But as for me, I hoped in you,

O Lord;

I said, You are my God.

15. In your hands are my lots;

deliver me from the hands

of my enemies,

and from those who are persecuting me.

16. Let your face shine on your servant;

save me in your mercy.

17. O Lord, let me not be put to shame,

because I have called upon you.

Let the ungodly be covered in shame,

weighed down to the depths of Hades.

18. Let those deceitful lips become mute

which speak injustice against the righteous

with pride and contempt.

19. How abundant is the multitude of your kindness, O Lord,

which you have secretly stored up for those who fear you!

You have drawn them out for those who hope in you,

in the presence of the children

of the earth.

20. In the secret of your presence,

you will hide them from mortal vexation;

you will shelter them in the tabernacle,

from the contradiction of tongues.

21. Blessed be the Lord,

for magnificently displaying such mercy

in a fortified city.

22. But I said in my ecstasy,

I am cast out from your presence;

therefore, you, O Lord, did hearken

to the sound of my supplication

when I cried out to you.

23. O love the Lord, all you saints,

because the Lord seeks after truth

and requites those who act with insolence.

24. Be of good courage,

let your hearts be strengthened,

all you who place your trust in the Lord.

Psalm 31

1. Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven,

and whose sins are covered over.

2. Blessed the fellow to whom the Lord will impute no sin,

and in whose mouth there is no guile to be found.

3. Because I kept silent,

my bones grew old,

from my crying all day long.

4. Because day and night your hand weighed heavy upon me,

I was reduced to misery by

a piercing thorn.

5. I acknowledged my sin,

and did not hide my iniquity.

I said, “Against myself I will confess my iniquity to the Lord.”

Thus you forgave the wickedness

of my heart.

6. Because of this, every pious person shall pray to you in due season,

even a deluge of many waters would not approach him.

7. You are my refuge from the affliction which encircles me,

my joy, to redeem me from those who encompass me.

8. I will instruct you and guide you in the way you should go;

I will steadfastly fix my eyes upon you.

9. Be not like horse and mule,

which have no understanding,

whose mouths you must restrain with bridle and bit,

when they do not respond to you.

10. Many are the scourges of the sinner,

but mercy will encompass the one who trusts in the Lord.

11. Be glad in the Lord and exult you righteous,

and glory all you who are upright

of heart.

Psalm 34

1. Judge them, O Lord, those who wrong me.

Fight against those who are at war

with me.

2. Grab shield and buckler,

and rise to my defense.

3. Wield a sword and fend off

my pursuers;

say to my soul, I am your deliverance.

4. Let those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded;

let those who devise evils against me be thwarted and put to shame.

5. Let them be like dust before the wind,

with an angel of the Lord

afflicting them.

6. Let their path be dark and slippery,

with an angel of the Lord pursuing them.

7. For without cause they have hid their destructive snare for me,

and without basis they have reproached my soul.

8. Let a snare which they see

not catch them,

and the trap which they have

hidden snap;

and by that very snare let them

fall victim.

9. But my soul shall exult in the Lord,

and take delight in his salvation.

10. All my bones shall declare,

O Lord, who is like you!

Delivering the poor from the hand which is stronger,

the poor and needy from their despoilers.

11. Unjust witnesses arose,

and charged me with things I knew not.

12. They paid me back evil for good,

even bereavement to my soul.

13. But I, when they troubled me,

clothed myself in sackcloth,

and humbled my soul with fasting,

and my prayer shall be directed

to my bosom.

14. I behaved kindly towards them,

as to one of our neighbors or to

a brother.

I humbled myself as one mourning,

as one sad of countenance.

15. But they rejoiced over me gathering together,

scourges were brought against me, and I didn’t know it.

They were scattered, but they felt no compunction.

16. They tested and tortured me,

they sneered at me most contemptuously,

they gnashed their teeth at me.

17. O Lord, when will you look down upon me?

Deliver my soul from their malice,

my only-begotten from the lions.

18. I will give you thanks in the great assembly,

amid vast throngs I will praise you.

19. Let not those who are my enemies for no reason,

rejoice over me;

those who hate me without cause,

who wink at each other.

20. For indeed in my presence they spoke peaceably,

but with rage they were weaving plots.

21. Then their mouths opened wide against me,

blurting, “Aha! Aha! Our own eyes have seen it!”

22. You, O Lord have seen!

Do not remain silent!

O Lord, do not draw away from me!

23. Rise up, O Lord, and attend

to my trial,

O my God and my Lord, for the sake of my cause.

24. Judge me, O Lord,

according to your righteousness,

O Lord my God;

and let them not rejoice on my account.

25. Let them not say in their hearts,

Aha! Aha! It is to our mind!

Nor let them say,

We have swallowed him alive!

26. Let them be confounded and ashamed together,

who rejoice over my calamities;

let them be clothed with shame and confusion,

who make great claims against me.

27. Let those who desire my justification,

exult with joy and be filled

with gladness.

Let those who desire the peace

of your servant,

continually repeat, “The Lord be magnified!”

28. Thus shall my tongue speak of your righteousness,

and of your praise all the day long.

Psalm 35

5. O Lord, your mercy dwells

in the heavens,

and your truth is as high as the clouds.

6. Your righteousness is as solid as the mountains of God,

and your judgments are as great as the deep abyss.

7. As you, O Lord, have greatly multiplied your mercy;

let the children of the earth trust in the shelter of your wings.

8. They shall be fully satiated with the fatness of your house,

and you shall cause them to drink the full stream of your delights.

9. For with you is the wellspring of life,

and in your light we shall see light.

10. Extend your mercy to those who know you,

and your righteousness to those who are upright of heart.

11. Let not the foot of pride come against me,

nor the hand of sinners shake me.

12. There, all the evil doers have fallen!

They are cast out and will not be able to stand.

Psalm 37

1. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath;

nor chastise me in your anger.

2. For your darts are fixed deeply

within me,

and your hand is pressed heavily

upon me.

3. There is no health in my flesh because of your anger;

there is no peace for my bones because of my sins.

4. For my transgressions have soared over my head;

they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

5. My wounds become infected

and malignant,

on account of my foolishness.

6. I have been in misery,

totally bent over—

all the day long I have been

in mourning.

7. For my soul was filled with illusions;

and there is no healthy soundness

in my flesh.

8. I have been afflicted and exceedingly depressed;

I have roared because of the groaning of my heart.

9. But all my desire is laid before you,

and my groaning is not hidden

from you.

10. My heart panted, my strength

failed me,

and the light of my eyes has left me.

11. My friends and neighbors stayed away from me,

they drew near but stopped;

even my nearest relatives stood aloof.

12. And those who sought my life pressed against me;

those who sought my ruin

spoke vanities,

they devised deceits all the day long.

13. But I, as someone deaf, heard not;

and as someone dumb, opened not

my mouth.

14. In fact, I became like a person who doesn’t hear,

and in whose mouth no reproofs

are found.

15. For in you, O Lord, I placed

my trust;

you O Lord, my God will hearken.

16. For I said, Perhaps my enemies will rejoice over me,

Indeed, when my feet slipped, they boasted and gloated.

17. For I am prepared for plagues,

my terrible situation continually

before me.

18. For I will declare my lawlessness,

and express sorrow for my sin.

19. But my enemies live and are stronger than I!

And those who hate me unjustly are multiplied!

20. Those who reward evil for good slandered me,

all because I follow righteousness.

21. Do not utterly forsake me, O Lord, my God;

do not stand far away from me.

22. Draw near to my aid,

O Lord of my salvation.

Psalm 38

1. I said, I will watch my ways,

so I won’t sin with my tongue.

I set a guard over my mouth,

while the sinner stood in my presence.

2. I was dumb and humbled myself,

and kept silent from profitable speech,

yet my grief was renewed.

3. My heart grew hot within me,

a fire would be set ablaze by

my musings,

thus I spoke with my tongue:

4. O Lord make known to me my end,

and the number of my days, what it is,

that I might know what I lack.

5. Behold you have made my days old,

yet my existence is as nothing

before you.

The universe is nothing but vanity,

and every living person.

6. Surely Man walks about in an illusion,

still he is disquieted in vain.

He stores up treasures,

yet knows not for whom he shall

gather them.

7. And now, what is my expectation?

Is it not the Lord?

In you is my sustaining hope.

8. Deliver me from all my transgressions.

You have made me a reproach

to the foolish.

9. I was dumb and opened

not my mouth,

because you are the One who made me.

10. Remove your scourges from me,

I have fainted because of the strength of your hand.

11. With rebukes you have corrected Man for iniquity;

and caused his life to vanish like a spider’s web,

nevertheless, everyone is disquieted

in vain.

12. Give ear to my prayer, O Lord,

hearken to my supplication.

Attend to my tears, be not silent,

for I am a sojourner in the land,

and a stranger as all my ancestors were.

13. O spare me,

that I may be refreshed,

before I depart,

and be no more.

Psalm 39

5. O Lord my God, you have multiplied your marvelous deeds,

and in your thoughts none shall be likened to you.

I declared aloud and spoke of them,

they defied all numbering.

6. Sacrifice and offering you desired not,

but a body you prepared for me;

whole-burnt offerings and sacrifices

for sin,

these, you required not.

7. Then I said, Behold I come,

in the volume of the book it is written regarding me:

8. I desired to do your will, O my God,

your law resides in the midst

of my heart.

9. I have preached righteousness in a great congregation,

Behold I will not refrain my lips from speaking,

You, O Lord, can bear witness.

10. I have not hidden your righteousness in my heart,

your truth and your salvation I have proclaimed.

I hid not your mercy and truth from the great assembly.

11. But you, O Lord, remove not your compassion from me,

your mercy and your truth have helped me constantly.

12. For innumerable evils have encompassed me,

my transgressions have taken

hold of me

—thus I could not see clearly;

they are more numerous than the hairs of my head,

therefore my heart failed me.

13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me.

O Lord, draw near to my assistance.

14. Let those who seek my life

to destroy it,

be utterly confounded and ashamed.

Let those who wish evil upon me,

be turned back and put to shame.

15. Let those who say to me, Aha! Aha!

quickly receive shame as their reward.

16. Let all who seek you, O Lord,

exult and rejoice in you;

let those who love your salvation continually say,

“May the Lord be magnified!”

17. As for me, I am poor and needy;

the Lord will take care of me.

You are my helper and defender;

O my God, do not delay.

Psalm 41

1. As the deer earnestly pants for springs of water,

so pants my soul for you, O God.

2. My soul has thirsted

for the living God.

When shall I come and appear

before God?

3. My tears were my food day and night,

when they continually said to me, Where is your God?

4. I remembered these things,

and poured out my soul within me;

for I will go to the place of your marvelous tabernacle,

even to the house of God,

with shouts of exultation and thanksgiving,

and the sound of those who celebrate the festival.

5. Why then are you sad, O my soul?

And why do you trouble me?

Hope in God, for I will give him thanks,

God, the healthy glow of my countenance.

6. O my God, my soul has been troubled within me;

therefore I will remember you

from the land of Jordan and Hermon,

straddling the little mountain.

7. Deep calls unto deep,

in the roar of your raging waters;

all your billows and waves passed over me.

8. By day the Lord will execute mercy,

and make it manifest by night.

Let a prayer to the God of my life accompany me.

9. I will say to God, You are my helper,

so why have you forsaken me?

Why do I go about downcast

while my enemy oppresses me?

10. While my bones were crushed,

those who afflicted me reproached me

incessantly saying every day:

Where is your God?

11. Why are you sad, O my soul?

And why do you trouble me?

Hope in God, for I will give him thanks,

the health of my countenance

and my God.

Psalm 42

1. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:

deliver me from the unjust

and deceitful fellow.

2. For you, O God, are my strength; then why have you cast me off?

Why do I go about sad of countenance while the enemy oppresses me?

3. O send forth your light

and your truth;

these have guided me and brought me to your holy mountain,

even directed me to your holy tabernacle.

4. Thus I will go to the altar of God,

to the God who gladdens my youthfulness.

I will give thanks to you on the harp,

O God, my God.

5. Why are you sad, O my soul?

And why do you trouble me?

Hope in God, for I will give him thanks,

the health of my countenance

and my God.

Psalm 44

1. My heart has uttered a good word,

I declare my works to the king.

My tongue is the quill of a speedy writer.

2. You are fairer than mere mortals;

grace is poured out upon your lips,

therefore God has blessed you forever.

3. Gird your sword upon your thigh,

O Mighty One!

To your comeliness and beauty

give splendor!

4. Bend your bow, and prosper

and reign,

for the sake of truth, meekness

and justice!

Your right hand shall guide you wondrously!

5. Your arrows are sharpened,

O Mighty One.

Nations shall fall under your sway;

even those in the heart of the king’s enemies.

6. Your throne, O God, is forever

and ever,

the scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of rectitude.

7. You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity,

therefore God, your God,

has anointed you

with the oil of gladness above

your fellows.

8. There is myrrh, stacte, and cassia wafting from your robes,

from the ivory palaces which have gladdened you.

9. Kings’ daughters assemble in honor of you;

the queen stood at your right hand,

clothed in vestments of gold and fine embroidery.

10. Listen, O daughter, and take note:

Incline your ear, forget your people and your father’s house,

11. because the king has desired your beauty,

because he is your Lord.

12. The daughters of Tyre shall bow down to him bearing gifts,

the richest people of the land shall supplicate your favor.

13. All this glory is for the daughter of the king within;

she is enwrapped in golden fringed finery and embroidery.

14. The virgins in her train shall be brought to the king.

Those who are related to her will be introduced to you.

15. They shall be brought forth with gladness and rejoicing.

They shall be ushered into the temple of the king.

16. In place of your ancestors, children are born to you;

you shall make them princes over

all the land.

17. They shall cause your name to be remembered,

from generation to generation.

Therefore the nations shall give you thanks for ever,

even for ages and ages to come.

Psalm 46

1. Clap your hands all your nations;

Shout to God with voices of exultation.

2. For the Lord Most High is awesome,

great king over all the earth.

3. He has subdued peoples under us,

the nations under our feet.

4. He has chosen us as his inheritance,

the beauty of Jacob which he loved.

5. God has ascended with shouts of acclamation,

the Lord to the sound of trumpet blasts!

6. Sing praises to our God, sing praises!

Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

7. For God is king over all the earth;

sing praises with heartfelt understanding.

8. God reigns over the nations;

God sits upon his holy throne.

Psalm 49

7. Hear, my people and I will speak to you, Israel,

and I will bear witness to you: I am God your God.

8. I will not reprove you for your sacrifices,

your burnt-offering which are always before me.

9. Nor will I take any bullocks from your house,

nor he-goats from your flocks.

10. For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine,

the cattle on the mountainsides and oxen.

11. I lay claim to all the birds of the air,

and the ripe fruits of the field belong

to me.

12. If I were hungry, I would not

inform you,

for the world is mine and all its fullness.

13. Do I eat the flesh of bulls,

or drink the blood of goats?

14. Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise,

and pay your vows to the Most High.

15. Call upon me in the day of affliction,

and I will deliver you and you

will praise me.

16. But to the sinner God has said,

“Why do you declare my ordinances,

or take up my covenant in your mouth?

17. As for you,

you have hated instruction,

and cast my words behind you.

18. If you saw a thief, you kept pace

with him;

and cast in your lot with adulterers.

19. Your mouth has abounded in wickedness,

and your tongue has fashioned deceit.

20. You sat down and spoke against your relative,

even against your mother’s offspring you caused scandal.

21. You did these things

and I kept quiet.

You wickedly supposed that I

was like yourself.

But now I will reprove you and set the matter before you.”

22. Now consider this, you who

forget God,

lest you be rent to pieces,

and there be no deliverer.

Psalm 50

1. Have mercy upon me, O God,

according to your great mercy;

and according to the multitude of your compassions,

blot out my transgression.

2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,

and cleanse me from my sin.

3. For I am conscious of my iniquity,

and my sin is continually before me.

4. Against you alone have I sinned,

and done what is evil in your sight,

thus you may be justified

in your decrees,

and may be vindicated when

you are judged.

5. For behold, I was molded

in iniquities,

and in sins did my mother conceive me.

6. For behold, you love truth,

you have manifested to me

the secret and hidden things of your wisdom.

7. Sprinkle me with hyssop and I shall be purified;

wash me, and I shall become whiter than snow.

8. Cause me to hear gladness and joy

and these weary bones shall rejoice.

9. Turn your face away from my sins,

and blot out all my iniquities.

10. Create a clean heart in me, O God,

and renew a right spirit in my

inner depths.

11. Cast me not away from your presence,

and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

12. Restore to me the joy of your salvation;

establish me with your directing Spirit.

13. Then will I teach transgressors

your ways,

and the ungodly shall return to you.

14. Deliver me from blood-guilt O God, the God of my salvation,

and my tongue shall joyfully proclaim your righteousness.

15. O Lord, open my lips,

and my mouth shall declare your praise.

16. For if you desired sacrifice, I would have rendered it.

In whole-burnt offerings you take no pleasure.

17. Sacrifice for God is a contrite spirit.

A broken and humbled heart you will not spurn, O God.

18. Deal favorably, O Lord, with Zion

according to your good pleasure;

Let the walls of Jerusalem be built up.

19. Then shall you be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness,

an offering and whole-burnt sacrifices,

then shall they offer up calves upon your altar.

Psalm 53

1. Save me, O God, by your name,

and judge me by your might.

2. O God, hear my prayer;

give ear to the words of my mouth.

3. For strangers have risen up

against me,

and the mighty have sought my life;

they have not set God before their eyes.

4. For behold, God comes to my aid.

The Lord is the protector of my life.

5. The Lord will repay my enemies

with evil.

Utterly destroy them in your truth!

6. Willingly I will offer you sacrifices,

I will give thanks to your name O Lord, for it is good.

7. For you have rescued me from all afflictions,

and my eye has witnessed

my enemies’ fate.

Psalm 54

1. Give ear, O God, to my prayer,

and do not disregard my supplication.

2. Attend to me and hearken to me,

I was grieved in my meditation and troubled;

3. because of an enemy’s voice and oppression of a sinner;

because they brought iniquity against me, seething with rage.

4. My heart was troubled within me,

and the dread of death fell upon me.

5. Fear and trembling gripped me,

and darkness enshrouded me.

6. And I said, “O that I had wings like those of a dove,

that I might fly away and find rest.”

7. Behold! I have fled far and away,

and sought refuge in the wilderness.

8. I waited on the one who would deliver me

from distress of spirit and wild tempest.

9. Overwhelm, O Lord, and divide

their tongues,

for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

10. Day and night transgression keeps its rounds upon the walls;

iniquity, sorrow and unrighteousness are in its midst,

11. and usury and fraud have not departed from its streets.

12. For if an enemy had reproached me,

I would have endured it,

and if one who hated me had spoken boastfully against me,

I would have hid myself from him.

13. But you, O like-minded soul, my guide, my intimate friend!

14. Who in companionship did sweeten my meals!

In the house of God, we used to walk in unanimity!

15. Let death come upon them,

and let them go down alive into Hades;

because there was wickedness in their dwellings,

even in the midst of them.

16. I cried out to God,

and the Lord hearkened to me.

Evening, morning and noon I shall declare and proclaim,

and the Lord shall hearken to my voice.

Psalm 56

1. Have mercy upon me, O God, be merciful to me,

for my soul has trusted in you;

and in the shadow of your wings

I will hope,

until this iniquity passes away.

2. I will cry to God the Most High,

to the God who has been kind to me . . .

5. Be exalted above the heavens, O God,

and let your glory be over

all the earth . . .

7. My heart, O God is ready,

my heart is ready:

I will sing, indeed, I will sing Psalms.

8. Awake my glory;

awake psaltery and harp:

I will awake early.

9. I will give thanks to you among the peoples, O Lord,

I will sing to you in the midst

of the nations.

10. For your mercy has been magnified even to the heavens,

and your truth exalted even to the clouds.

11. Be exalted above the heavens,

O God,

and let your glory be over all the earth!

Psalm 60

1. Hearken, O God, to my supplication,

attend to my prayer.

2. From the ends of the earth I have cried to you,

when my heart was despondent, you lifted me up on a rock.

3. You guided me because you were

my hope,

a tower of strength in the face

of the enemy.

4. I shall dwell in your tabernacle forever,

I shall take shelter in the cover

of your wings.

5. For you, O God, have heard

my prayers;

you have granted an inheritance to those who fear your name.

6. You will add days upon days to the king’s reign,

and extend his years to generation after generation.

7. He will continue forever in the presence of God.

Who will seek out his mercy and truth?

8. Thus I will sing to your name forever and ever,

that I may, day after day, fulfill my vows.

Psalm 62

1. O God, my God, I cry to you early in the morning;

my soul has thirsted for you,

how often has my flesh longed for you,

in a barren and trackless desert.

2. Thus have I appeared before you in the sanctuary,

to contemplate your power

and your glory.

3. Because your mercy is better than life,

my lips shall render you praise.

4. Thus I will bless you

throughout my life,

and in your name I will lift

up my hands.

5. Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness,

that my joyful lips may

praise your name.

6. Inasmuch as I remembered you upon my bed,

in the early hours I have meditated upon you.

7. For you have been my helper,

and in the shelter of your wings

I will rejoice.

8. My soul has clung closely to you;

your right hand has supported me.

9. But as for those who sought my life in vain,

they shall descend into the depths

of the earth.

10. They shall be delivered up to the edge of the sword,

they shall become morsels

for the jackals.

11. But the king shall rejoice in God,

everyone who swears by him

shall be praised,

for the mouth of those who speak lies has been stopped up.

Psalm 64

1. Praise is befitting for you, O God,

in Zion;

and to you shall a vow be paid.

2. Hearken to my prayer,

to you all flesh shall come.

3. The words of transgressors have overpowered us,

but you can pardon our sins.

4. Blessed is the one whom you have chosen and adopted,

he will dwell in your courts.

We shall be satisfied with the good things of your house;

your temple is holy, wondrous in righteousness.

5. Listen to us, O God, our savior,

the hope of all the ends of the earth,

and of those who travel

in the distant seas.

6. You establish the mountains

by your might,

girt round about by your power.

7. You stir up the depths of the sea,

causing the crashing sound of its waves.

8. The nations shall be in tumult;

those who inhabit the far reaches terrified at your signs.

You will cause the exiting of morning and evening to bring joy.

9. You have visited the earth

and watered it;

you have abundantly enriched it.

The river of God is bursting with water,

You have provided its supply for such is your provision.

10. Saturate her furrows,

and augment her productivity.

By these showers on it,

it will be gladdened,

the crops will spring up.

11. Bless the crown of the year

with your goodness,

and let the fields be filled with fertility.

12. Let the mountains of the wilderness become fertile;

and the hills be girt round about

with joy.

13. The rams of the flock have put on thick coats,

and the valleys abound in rich grain;

they shall cry aloud and sing hymns

of praise.

Psalm 66

1. May God be merciful to us

and bless us,

and cause his face to shine upon us.

2. May all know your way

upon the earth,

among the nations your saving help.

3. Let the peoples, O God,

give you thanks,

let all the peoples render you thanks.

4. Let the nations rejoice and exult,

for you shall judge peoples in equity,

and will guide the nations

upon the earth.

5. Let the peoples, O God,

give you thanks,

let all the peoples render you thanks.

6. The earth has yielded her fruit,

may God, our God, bless us!

7. May God truly bless us,

and may all the ends of the earth

revere God.

Psalm 68

1. Save me, O God,

for the waters have inundated me.

2. I am stuck in deep mire,

and there is no underlying support.

I am come into the depths of the sea,

and a tempest has overwhelmed me.

3. I am weary with crying;

my throat is hoarse;

and my eyes failed

while I waited on my God.

4. Those who hate me without cause

are more numerous than the hairs on my head.

My enemies who unjustly persecute me have become strong;

I have made restitution for what I did not steal.

5. O God, you are aware of my foolishness,

and my mistakes are not hidden

from you.

6. Let not those who wait on you,

O Lord of Hosts,

be put to shame on account of me.

Let not those who seek you,

experience confusion on my account,

O God of Israel.

7. For I have suffered reproach

for your sake,

confusion has covered my face.

8. I have become an alien to my relatives,

and a stranger to my mother’s children.

9. For zeal for your house has

consumed me,

and the reproaches of those who reproached you,

these have fallen upon me.

10. I have bowed down my life

with fasting,

but this has become a source of reproach to me.

11. I put sackcloth on for my garment,

thus I became a proverb to them.

12. Those who sit in the gate spoke against me;

those who drink wine composed a song about me.

13. But I will offer my prayer to you,

O Lord;

it is a propitious time, O God, in the multitude of your mercy;

hear me in the truth of your saving help.

14. Save me from the mire,

so that I may not be stuck;

let me be delivered from those

who hate me,

and rescued from the watery depths.

15. Let not a deluge of water engulf me;

let not the watery abyss swallow me;

nor the cistern shut its mouth on me.

16. Hear me, O Lord, for your loving mercy is tender,

according to your abundant compassion look down on me.

17. Turn not your face away from your servant,

for I am sorely afflicted;

hasten to hear me.

18. Draw near to my soul and redeem it;

deliver me, in spite of my enemies.

19. For you know my reproach, my shame and my confusion;

all those who afflict me stand poised before me.

20. My soul anticipated reproach

and misery,

I waited for a condoler,

but there was none,

for someone to comfort me,

but found none.

21. They gave me gall for my food,

and for my thirst, gave me vinegar to drink.

22. Let their table become a snare

before them,

a source of recompense and a stumbling-block. . . .

29. I am needy and grief-stricken,

but the saving grace of your face has upheld me.

30. I will praise the name of my God with a song;

I will magnify God with praise.

31. This will be more pleasing to God,

than a young calf having horns

and hooves.

32. Let the poor see and rejoice;

diligently seek God and you shall live.

Psalm 69

1. O God, come to my assistance;

O Lord, make haste to help me.

2. Let those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded;

let those who wish me ill, be thwarted and put to shame.

3. Let those who say to me, Aha! Aha!

be turned back and suddenly covered with shame.

4. Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you;

Let those who love your saving help,

continually say, God be magnified!

5. But I am poor and needy;

O God help me.

You are my helper and deliverer;

O Lord do not delay.

Psalm 70

1. I have placed my hope in you,

O Lord,

let me never be put to shame.

2. In your righteousness, deliver me and rescue me;

incline your ear to me and save me.

3. Be for me a protecting God

and a stronghold to save me,

for you are my fortress and refuge.

4. Deliver me, O God, from the grasp of the sinner,

from the hand of the transgressor and unjust person.

5. For you are my support, O Lord;

you are my hope, O Lord,

from my youth.

6. I have depended on you

from the womb;

from my birth you have been

my protector.

I continually sing hymns

concerning you.

7. To many I became a wonder,

as it were,

but you have been my strong helper.

8. Let my mouth be filled with praise,

that I may sing of your glory and majesty all day.

9. Do not cast me off in the time of my old age;

do not forsake me when

my strength fails.

10. For my enemies have spoken

against me,

and my assassins have taken

counsel together,

11. saying, “God has forsaken him,

pursue and take him, for he has no deliverer.”

12. O God, do not be far removed

from me;

O my God, draw near to my assistance.

13. Let those who plot against my life

be ashamed and utterly fail;

let those who seek my ill

be clothed with shame and dishonor.

14. But as for me,

I will continually hope,

and I will praise you more and more.

15. My mouth shall declare your righteousness,

your saving help all the day long;

for I know no other practices.

16. I will go forth in the might of the Lord,

O Lord I will boast of your

righteousness alone.

17. You have taught me, O God, from my youth,

even still I declare your wonders.

18. Even until I am old

and advanced in years,

forsake me not, O God,

until I shall have declared your might

to all the generation that is yet to come,

even your power and righteousness.

19. O God, the great works you

have wrought

are as high as the heavens!

O God, who can be compared with you?

20. O what trials many and sore have you shown me!

Yet you relented and restored my life,

and brought me back from the depths of the earth.

21. You have multiplied your

saving mercy,

and returned and comforted me,

and brought me back from the depths of the earth.

22. Therefore I will praise you with a musical instrument,

even I, regarding your truth, O God.

I will sing and play to you on the harp,

O Holy One of Israel.

23. My lips shall rejoice

when I sing to you,

and my soul, which you have redeemed.

24. Moreover, even my tongue

shall meditate on your righteousness,

all the day long,

while those who seek my harm,

shall be ashamed and confounded.

Psalm 71

1. O God, give your judgment

to the king,

and your righteousness to the king’s son;

2. that he may judge your people with righteousness,

and your poor with judgment.

3. Let the mountains and hills

raise peace and prosperity for

your people.

4. He shall judge the poor of your people with righteousness,

and save the children of the needy

and lay low the false accuser.

5. He shall endure as long as the sun,

and stand before the moon forever.

6. He shall come down as heavy showers upon a fleece

and as raindrops falling upon the earth.

7. In his days righteousness shall

spring up

and abundance of peace until the moon be no more.

8. And he shall reign from sea to sea,

from the great river to the ends

of the earth.

9. Ethiopians shall bow down

before him,

and his enemies shall lick the dust.

10. The kings of Tarshish and the islands shall bring presents

The kings of Arabia and Saba

shall offer gifts.

11. And all kings shall worship him;

all the nations will serve him.

12. For he has delivered the poor from the oppressor;

and the needy who had no helper.

Psalm 72

1. How good is God to Israel,

to the upright of heart!

2. But as for me, my feet almost stumbled,

my steps had nearly slipped.

3. For I was jealous of transgressors,

seeing how sinners prosper.

4. For there is no sign of reluctance in their death;

they are steadfast in their affliction.

5. They experience not the trials

of others,

nor are they afflicted like others.

6. Therefore haughtiness

has possessed them;

they have clothed themselves with injustice and impiety.

7. Their injustice springs forth

in fat supply;

they have fulfilled the intention

of their heart.

8. They have taken counsel

and spoke wickedly;

they uttered injustice to high heaven.

9. They have set their mouth

against heaven;

and their tongue has wagged

over all the earth.

10. Therefore my people shall return

to this,

and fullness of days shall be found

with them.

11. Indeed they said,

“How does God know?

Is there any knowledge

in the Most High?”

12. Behold, these are the sinners,

the ones who always prosper,

possessing great wealth.

13. Then I said, “I have in vain kept my heart just,

and washed my hands in innocence.

14. All the day long I have been plagued,

and my reproof was every morning.”

15. If said, I will make an open declaration;

I would have been treacherous to your children’s generation.

16. Yet I undertook to understand this,

but alas, it is too difficult for me.

17. When I go to the sanctuary of God,

then I may understand the final outcome.

18. It is because of their crafty dealings,

that you have dealt thus with them.

You have cast them down,

when they thought they were exalted.

19. How they have become desolate!

They have vanished in a flash!

They have perished

because of their lawlessness.

20. Like the dream of someone rising from sleep,

you, O Lord, in your city will spurn their phantom.

21. Therefore, my heart has been filled with joy,

and my stomach—tied in knots—has been relieved.

22. Yet I was despicable and knew it not;

I had become like a brute beast

before you.

23. Nevertheless, I am always with you,

because you held me by my right hand.

24. You have guided me by your counsel,

and taken me to yourself in glory.

25. For what is there in heaven for me besides you?

And what have I desired on earth other than you?

26. Have my heart and my flesh failed?

God is the life of my heart.

God is my portion forever.

27. For behold, those who remove themselves from you,

shall utterly perish.

You have destroyed everyone

who leaves you

to play the whore.

28. Thus it is good for me

to cleave to God,

to place my trust in the Lord,

that I may proclaim all your praises,

in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

Psalm 76

13. O God, your path is in holiness.

What god is as great as our God?

14. You are the God who works wonders,

you have made known among the peoples your power.

15. You redeemed with your arm your people,

the children of Jacob and Joseph.

16. The waters saw you, O God,

the waters saw you and trembled,

and the abyss was deeply troubled.

17. Great was the roaring of waters,

the clouds uttered a sound,

for your bolts were passing

through them.

18. The sound of your thunder rumbled round,

and your lightening illumined

the world;

the earth trembled and quaked.

19. Your way was through the sea,

and your paths through many waters,

but your footsteps could not be known.

20. You guided your people as sheep,

by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 79

1. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel,

who leads Joseph like a flock.

You who sit upon the cherubim,

manifest yourself.

2. Before Ephraim, Benjamin

and Manasseh,

stir up your power

and come to our salvation.

3. Turn us around, O God,

let your face shine,

and we shall be saved.

4. O Lord, the God of hosts,

how long will you be angry

with the prayer of your servant?

5. How long will you feed us

with the bread of tears,

and cause us to drink tears by measure?

6. You have made us a laughing stock

to our neighbors;

and our enemies have mocked us

round about.

7. Turn us around, O God,

let your face shine,

and we shall be saved.

8. You have transplanted a vine out

of Egypt;

your have uprooted the heathen and planted it.

9. You prepared a way before it,

and caused it to take root,

and the land was filled.

10. Its leafy shade covered

the mountain,

and its tendrils, the cedars of God.

11. It sent forth its branches to the sea,

and its spreading boughs to the river.

12. Then why have you broken down

its hedge,

that all who pass by the roadside may pluck it?

13. The boar from the forest

has laid it waste;

and the wild beast has devoured it.

14. O God of Hosts, return

we beseech you;

look down from heaven and see and visit this vine.

15. Restore that which your right hand has planted,

and look on the Son of Man whom you strengthened for yourself.

16. It is burnt up and uprooted,

at the rebuke of your countenance they will perish.

17. Let your hand be upon your right hand man,

on the Son of Man whom you made strong for yourself.

18. Thus will we not depart from you;

you shall give us life,

and we will call upon your name.

19. O Lord, God of hosts,

turn us around.

Let your face shine

and we shall be saved.

Psalm 80

1. Exult with joy in God our helper!

Shout aloud to the God of Jacob!

2. Take up a psalm and produce

the timbrel,

the sweet sounding psaltery with a harp.

3. Blare the trumpet at the new moon,

in the glorious day of our feast.

4. For it is an ordinance for Israel,

and a statute written by the God

of Jacob,

5. who established it as a testimony

in Joseph,

when he came forth from the land

of Egypt;

he heard a language which he understood not.

6. He removed his back from burdens;

his hands slaved away

at making baskets.

7. In affliction you called upon me,

and I delivered you.

I heard you in the secret place

of the tempest;

I tested you in the water

of contradiction.

8. Hear, my people, and I will testify

to you,

O Israel, if you will hearken to me.

9. There shall be no new god

among you,

nor shall you worship a strange god.

10. For I am the Lord your God,

who brought you out of the land

of Egypt.

Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

11. But my people did

not heed my voice,

and Israel did not hearken to me.

12. So I let them go after

the habits of their own hearts;

they will pursue their own customs.

13. If my people had hearkened to me,

if Israel had walked in my ways,

14. I would have quickly routed

their enemies,

and laid my hand upon those who

afflicted them.

Psalm 81

1. God stands in the assembly of gods,

and in their midst will judge gods.

2. How long will you judge unjustly,

and favor the person of sinners?

3. Do justice to the orphan and poor,

render justice to the oppressed

and needy.

4. Rescue the needy,

and deliver the poor

from the sinner’s hand.

5. They know not, neither do

they understand;

they walk about in darkness.

All the foundations of the earth

shall be shaken.

6. I have said, “You are gods,

all of you, children of the Most High.”

7. But you shall die as mortals,

and fall as one of the rulers.

8. Arise O God,

judge the earth;

for you shall inherit all nations.

Psalm 83

1. How lovely are your dwellings,

O Lord of hosts!

2. My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.

3. Yea, the sparrow has found itself

a home;

and the turtle-dove a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young,

even your altars, O Lord of hosts,

my King and my God.

4. Blessed are those who dwell

in your house;

they shall praise you for ever and ever.

5. Blessed the fellow whose help is from you, O Lord,

who has planned in his heart to go up to

6. the valley of weeping, to the appointed place,

for there the Lawgiver will bestow blessings.

7. They shall go from strength

to strength;

the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

8. O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer;

give ear O God of Jacob.

9. Behold, O God our Defender,

and look upon the face

of your anointed.

10. For one day in your courts

is better than a thousand [elsewhere];

I would rather be dejected in the house of God,

than dwell in the tents of sinners.

11. For the Lord loves mercy and truth;

God will grant grace and glory.

The Lord will not withhold good things

from those who walk in innocence.

12. O Lord of hosts,

blessed the fellow who trusts in you!

Psalm 84

1. O Lord you have favored your land;

you have turned back the captivity

of Jacob.

2. You have forgiven your people their transgressions;

you have covered over all their sins.

3. You have caused all your wrath

to abate;

you have turned away from

your fierce anger.

4. Turn us around, O God

of our salvation,

and turn your anger away from us.

5. Will you be angry with us forever?

Or will you extend your wrath

from generation to generation?

6. O God you will relent and give us life,

and your people will rejoice in you.

7. Show us your mercy, O Lord,

and grant us your salvation. . . .

10. Mercy and truth have met

each other;

righteousness and peace have kissed

one another.

11. Truth has sprung up from out

of the earth,

and righteousness has peered down from heaven.

12. For the Lord will grant goodness,

and our land shall yield her fruitfulness.

13. Righteousness will precede the Lord,

and shall establish his steps along

the way.

Psalm 85

1. Incline your ear, O Lord,

and hearken to me,

for I am indeed poor and needy.

2. Preserve my life, for I am holy;

save your servant, O God,

who hopes in you.

3. Have mercy on me, O Lord,

for to you will I cry all the day long.

4. Gladden the soul of your servant,

for to you, O Lord,

I have lifted up my soul.

5. For you, O Lord, are kind and gentle,

and bountiful in mercy to all who call upon you.

6. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;

attend to the sound of my supplication.

7. In the day of my woe

I cried out to you,

because you have heard me.

8. For there is none like you among the gods, O Lord,

and there are no works compared

to yours.

9. All the nations which you have made shall come,

and worship before you, O Lord,

and they shall glorify your name.

10. For you are great and work wonders;

you are the only God, the Great One.

11. Guide me, O Lord, in your path,

that I may walk in your truth.

Let my heart rejoice,

that I might revere your name.

12. I will give thanks to you, O Lord,

my God,

with all my heart,

and I will glorify your name forever.

13. For your mercy towards me is great;

you have delivered my life from the deepest hell.

14. O God, transgressors have risen up against me,

an assembly of violent people has sought my life,

and they have not set you

before their eyes.

15. But you, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful,

longsuffering, abounding in mercy

and truth.

16. Look down upon me and have mercy on me,

give your strength to your servant,

and save the offspring of your handmaid.

17. Vouchsafe for me a token for good,

and let those who hate me see it

and be ashamed,

for you, O Lord, have helped me

and comforted me.

Psalm 88

1. O Lord, I will sing of your

mercies forever;

I will proclaim your truth with my mouth to all generations.

2. For you have said: “Mercy shall be built up forever.

Your truth shall be established

in the heavens.

3. I have made a covenant

with my chosen;

I swore a pledge to my servant, David.

4. I shall establish your seed forever,

and build up your throne to all generations.”

5. The heavens declare your wonders,

O Lord,

and your truth in the assembly of the holy ones.

6. For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord?

And who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?

7. God is glorified in the council of the holy ones,

great and fearful to all who

are around him.

8. O Lord, God of hosts,

who is like you?

You are mighty, O Lord, and your truth encompasses you.

9. You rule over the raging of the sea,

and calm the tumult of its waves.

10. You have humbled the proud like someone slain;

with your mighty arm you have scattered your foes.

11. Yours are the heavens, and yours

is the earth.

You have founded the world

and its fullness.

12. You have created the north

and the west;

Tabor and Hermon will rejoice

in your name.

13. Yours is the mighty arm;

let your hand be strengthened, your right hand exalted.

14. Justice and judgment are the foundation of your throne;

mercy and truth shall process before your presence.

15. Blessed the people who know the sound of joy!

They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your presence.

16. In your name they shall rejoice all the day long,

and in your righteousness they shall be exalted.

17. For you are the boast

of their strength,

and in your good pleasure our horn shall be exalted.

18. For from the Lord is support,

even from the Holy One of Israel,

our King.

19. Then you spoke in a dream to your children, saying:

“I have set help on one who is mighty,

I have exalted a chosen one from out of my people.

20. I have found David to be my servant,

I have anointed him with holy oil.

21. For my hand shall support him,

and my arm shall strengthen him.

22. The enemy shall have no advantage over him,

and the son of lawlessness shall not hurt him again.

23. I will hew down his enemies

before him,

and I will put to flight those

who hate him.

24. And my truth and my mercy shall surround him,

and in my name his horn

shall be exalted.

25. I will place his left hand in the sea,

and his right hand in the river.

26. He shall call upon me, saying:

‘You are my father, my God,

and the support of my salvation.’

27. And I will set him as a first-born,

high above all the kings of the earth.

28. I will keep my mercy

with him forever,

and my covenant with him

shall be firm.”

Psalm 89

1. O Lord, you have been our refuge,

from one generation to the next.

2. Before the mountains existed,

or the earth and the world were formed,

even from age to age, you are.

3. Do not turn humanity back to its lowly state,

when you said, “Return you children

of earth.”

4. For a thousand years in your sight,

are as the yesterday which is past,

and as a watch in the night.

5. Years shall be vanity to them;

let the morning pass away like grass.

6. In the morning let it flower

and pass away,

in the evening let it droop, become withered and dried.

7. For we have perished in your anger,

and in your wrath we have been sorely troubled.

8. You have set our transgressions before your eyes,

our age is seen in the light of your face.

9. For all our days have perished,

indeed in your anger we have perished;

our years have spun on like a spider.

10. The days of our years number

seventy years,

perhaps by reason of strength,

they last eighty,

but the greater part of them is labor

and trouble,

for weakness overtakes us

and we are chastised.

11. Who knows the spite of your wrath?

And who knows how to number days because of your dread rage?

12. Thus make known your right hand,

and those who are instructed by wisdom in the heart.

13. Return, O Lord, how long?

Be pacified with your servants.

14. We have been satiated in the morning by your mercy,

and we greatly exalted and rejoiced.

15. Let us rejoice all our days,

in return for the days you humbled us,

the years wherein we experienced evil.

16. Look upon your servant and upon your handiwork,

and give guidance to their offspring.

17. May the brightness of the Lord our God shine upon us,

and may you prosper for us the work of our hands.

Psalm 90

1. The one who dwells in the help of the Most High

shall find shelter in the shadow of the God of Heaven.

2. That one shall say to the Lord, “You are my helper and my refuge;

O my God, I will place my hope in him.”

3. For he shall deliver you from the snare of the hunters

and from every troubling matter.

4. He shall overshadow

with his shoulders,

and you shall trust beneath his wings.

His truth shall encompass you

like a shield.

5. You shall not fear any terror

of the night,

nor any arrow flying by day,

6. nor any evil that prowls

in the darkness

nor calamity and evil spirit at noon-day.

7. A thousand shall fall at your side,

ten thousand at your right,

but not one shall come near you.

8. With your own eyes you shall behold

and see the reward of sinners.

9. For you, O Lord, are my hope.

You, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge.

10. No evil shall befall you,

no scourge shall approach

your dwelling.

11. For he shall give his angels charge over you,

to guard you in all your ways.

12. They shall bear you up

upon their hands,

lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13. You shall tread upon the asp

and the basilisk,

and you shall trample the lion

and the dragon.

14. Because he has placed his hope in me, I will deliver him;

I will protect him, because he has known my name.

15. That one shall call upon me and I will hearken;

I am present in the midst of affliction, and I will deliver him and glorify him.

16. I will satisfy him with

abundance of days,

and make known to him my salvation.

Psalm 91

1. It is good to give thanks to the Lord,

and to sing praises to your name,

O Most High,

2. to proclaim your mercy

in the morning,

and your truth every night,

3. with a ten-string psaltery,

with a song on the harp.

4. For you, O Lord, have made me glad with your works,

and in the operations of your hands I will rejoice.

5. How great are your works, O Lord!

Your thoughts are exceedingly deep!

6. A foolish fellow cannot know;

nor can a senseless person

understand this.

7. When the sinners sprang up

like grass,

all the workers of iniquity came to light,

that they should be utterly

destroyed forever.

8. But you are the Most High forever,

O Lord.

9. For behold your enemies shall perish,

and all the workers of iniquity

shall be scattered.

10. But my horn shall be exalted as that of a unicorn,

and my old age rejuvenated

with fresh oil.

11. My eye has espied around

in the midst of my enemies,

and among the wicked who

rise against me,

my ear shall hear.

12. The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,

and be multiplied like a cedar

in Lebanon.

13. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord,

shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14. Then they shall be multiplied in a ripe old age,

and they shall be prosperous that they may proclaim:

15. that the Lord, my God, is upright,

and that there is no unrighteous in God.

Psalm 100

1. I will sing to you, O Lord,

of mercy and judgment,

2. I will sing a psalm and conduct myself wisely

in a blameless way.

When will you come to me?

I walked in the integrity of my heart,

in the midst of my house.

3. I have not set before my eyes any unlawful thing,

those who commit transgressions

I have detested.

4. A perverse heart has not

cleaved to me.

When the wicked withdrew from me,

I no longer acknowledged him.

5. The one who privately slanders

his neighbor,

such a person I have expelled.

6. With one of haughty eye and insatiable heart,

I would not share a meal.

7. My eyes shall look upon the faithful of the earth,

that they may dwell with me.

Whoever walked in a blameless way,

the same ministered to me.

8. The arrogant did not dwell

in the midst of my house,

Whoever spoke unjustly was not rewarded in my eyes.

9. Early on I destroyed all the sinners

of the land,

to root out from the city of the Lord

all evildoers.

Psalm 101

1. O Lord, hearken to my prayer,

and let my cry reach you.

2. Do not turn your face away from me.

On the day when I am afflicted,

incline your ear to me.

On the day when I shall call upon you,

speedily give heed to me.

3. For my days have dissipated

like smoke,

and my bones are parched like kindling.

4. I am cut down like blades of grass,

and my heart is withered,

because I have forgotten to eat my food.

5. Because of the sound of my groaning,

my bones have stuck to my flesh.

6. I have become like a pelican

in the wilderness,

like a night-owl in an abandoned house.

7. I have spent sleepless nights,

I have become like a solitary bird on a roof.

8. All day long my enemies have reproached me,

and those who formerly praised me have sworn against me.

9. For I have eaten ashes

as if it were bread,

and my drink has been mingled

with weeping,

10. because of your anger

and your wrath,

for you have lifted me up only

to dash me down.

11. My days have declined like a shadow,

and I am withered up like dry grass.

12. But you, O Lord, endure forever,

and your memorial lasts for all generations. . . .

25. In the beginning, you, O Lord,

laid the foundations of the earth;

and the heavens are your handiwork.

26. They shall perish,

but you shall perdure.

They shall grow old like a garment,

and as a cloak you shall fold them up,

and they shall be changed.

27. But you remain the same,

and your years do not falter.

28. Let the children of your servants pitch their tents,

and let their seed prosper forever.

Psalm 102

1. Bless the Lord, O my soul;

and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

2. Bless the Lord, O my soul;

and forget not all his praises;

3. who forgives all your transgressions,

and heals all your infirmities;

4. who redeems your life from corruption,

and crowns you with mercy and compassion;

5. who satisfies your desire

with good things

so that your youthfulness may be renewed like that of an eagle.

6. The Lord executes mercy

and judgment

for all who are wronged.

7. He made known his ways to Moses,

his will to the children of Israel.

8. The Lord is compassionate

and merciful,

longsuffering, abounding in mercy.

9. He will not always be angry;

nor will he be wrathful forever.

10. He has not dealt with us according to our sins,

nor repaid us according to

our iniquities.

11. For as high is the heaven

above the earth,

the Lord has correspondingly increased mercy for those who revere him.

12. As far as the east is from the west,

accordingly he has removed our transgressions from us.

13. As a father displays compassion towards his children,

the Lord takes pity on those

who revere him;

14. for he knows our make-up,

and remembers that we are dust.

15. A human being’s days are like grass;

like a blossom of the field

so shall she bloom.

16. For the dry wind blows over it, and it shall cease to exist,

and one shall no longer recognize

her place.

17. Yet the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation

for those who revere him;

and his righteousness endures to the children’s children;

18. so that they keep his covenant,

and remember to observe his commandments.

19. The Lord has established his throne in heaven,

and his kingdom rules over all.

20. Bless the Lord all you his angels,

mighty in strength to perform

his bidding,

to heed the voice of his commands.

21. Bless the Lord all you his hosts,

you ministers of his that perform

his will.

22. Bless the Lord, all you his works,

in every place of his dominion.

Bless the Lord, O my soul!

Psalm 103

1. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

O Lord, my God, you are very great!

You have clothed yourself with praise and honor;

2. you who robe yourself with light as with a garment,

stretching out heaven

like a leather tunic;

3. who vaults his chambers with waters

who makes the clouds his chariots,

who walks on the wings of the wind;

4. who makes his angels spirits,

and his ministers flaming fire;

5. who establishes the earth

on its firm foundation,

it shall not be displaced from age to age.

6. The abyss, like a garment,

is his vestment,

the waters shall stand upon the hills.

7. At your rebuke the waters

shall depart;

at the voice of your thunder they shall be alarmed.

8. They go up to the mountains,

and reach down to the plains,

to the place you have founded for them.

9. You have set a boundary which they shall not pass,

neither shall they turn back again to cover the earth.

10. You are the one who causes springs to burst forth in the valleys,

the waters shall flow between the mountains.

11. They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field,

the wild asses shall quench their thirst.

12. The birds of heaven shall build their nests beside them,

from between the rocks they shall raise their voices.

13. You are the One who waters the mountains from celestial chambers,

the earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of your labors.

14. You are the One who causes grass to grow for the cattle,

and the green plants for the service

of humans,

to bring forth bread from the earth;

15. as well as wine to gladden the people’s hearts,

to make their face glisten with oil,

and bread to strengthen the heart.

16. The trees of the plains shall be laden with fruit,

even the cedars of Lebanon which you have planted.

17. There the sparrows shall build

their nests;

the heron’s house takes precedent among them.

18. The high mountains are for the deer;

the rocky crag is refuge for the rabbit.

19. He made the moon for

marking times;

the sun knows its time to set.

20. You established darkness,

and it was night,

when all the wild animals of the forest prowl about.

21. The young lions roar for their prey,

and seek their food from God.

22. The sun rises and they are

gathered together;

and they shall lie down in their

dens to rest.

23. People shall go out to work,

to labor until evening.

24. How great are your works, O Lord!

You made everything by wisdom;

the earth is full of your creativity.

25. There is this great and expansive sea;

innumerable are the creeping

creatures there,

small animals as well as large.

26. There the ships ply their passage;

and the dragon you formed to play therein.

27. All things wait upon you,

to give them their food in due season.

28. When you give it to them, they shall gather it;

when you open your hand,

all will be filled with your bounteous goodness.

29. But when you turn away your face,

they shall be troubled.

When you take away their breath,

they shall perish and return

to their dust.

30. You shall send forth your Spirit,

and they shall be created;

and you shall renew the face

of the earth.

31. Let the glory of the Lord be forever;

the Lord shall take pleasure

in his works.

32. He gazes upon the earth and makes it tremble;

He touches the mountains,

and they smoke.

33. I will sing to the Lord all my life;

I will sing praise to my God as long as I exist.

34. May my conversation be

pleasing to him,

and so I shall be glad in the Lord.

Psalm 107

1. My heart is ready, O God,

my heart is ready,

I will chant and sing psalms in my glory.

2. Awake psaltery and harp,

I will wake up early in the morning.

3. I will publicly give thanks to you,

O Lord,

I will sing praises to you among

the nations.

4. For your mercy is great above

the heavens,

and your truth soars above the clouds.

5. Be exalted above the heavens, O God,

and let your glory shine upon

all the earth.

6. So that your beloved ones

may be delivered,

save with your right hand

and hearken to me.

Psalm 109

1. The Lord said to my Lord:

Sit on my right,

until I make your enemies

your footstool.

2. The Lord will send out from Zion

a rod of power;

take up your rule in the midst

of your enemies.

3. With you is dominion in the day

of your power,

in the splendors of your holy ones.

From the womb before

the morning star,

I have begotten you.

4. The Lord swore an oath,

and will not take it back:

You are a priest forever,

according to the order of Melchizedek.

5. The Lord at your right hand

has dashed in pieces

kings in the day of his wrath.

6. He shall judge among the nations,

multiply the corpses,

crush the heads of many on the earth.

7. He shall drink from the brook

by the wayside,

therefore, he will lift up his head.

Psalm 112

1. Praise the Lord, you servants;

praise the name of the Lord!

2. Let the name of the Lord be blessed,

henceforth and forever more.

3. From the rising of the sun

to its setting,

let the name of the Lord be praised.

4. The Lord is exalted above

all the nations,

above the heavens his glory.

5. Who is like the Lord our God,

who dwells on high,

6. overseeing the things below,

in heaven and on earth,

7. who lifts up the poor from the earth,

and raises the needy from the dunghill,

8. to seat him with royalty,

even with the rulers of his people,

9. who settles the barren woman

in a home,

making her a joyful mother of children?

Psalm 113A

1. At the departure of Israel from Egypt,

of the house of Jacob from

a barbarous people,

2. Judah became his holy claim,

and Israel his dominion.

3. The sea had sight and took flight,

the Jordan turned back on its course.

4. The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like yearling lambs.

5. What did you see O sea,

that you took flight?

6. And you, O Jordan,

that you turned back in fright?

7. You mountains that you skipped

like rams?

And you hills like yearling lambs?

8. At the presence of the Lord,

the earth trembled,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

9. who turned the rock into pools

of water,

and the flinty rock into watery fountains.

Psalm 113B

9. Not to us, O Lord, not to us,

but to your name give the glory,

because of your mercy and truth;

10. lest the nations should say:

Where is their God?

11. But our God dwells in heaven,

and on earth;

doing whatsoever he wills.

12. The idols of the nations,

are silver and gold,

the work of human hands.

13. They have a mouth

but cannot speak;

they have eyes, but cannot see.

14. They have ears, but cannot hear;

they have nostrils, but cannot smell.

15. They have hands, but cannot touch;

they have feet, but cannot walk,

nor can they make a sound through their throat.

16. Let those who make them,

become like them,

and all who have trusted in them.

17. The house of Israel trusted in the Lord,

their helper and their protector.

18. The house of Aaron trusted

in the Lord,

their helper and their protector.

19. Those who fear the Lord have trusted in the Lord,

their helper and their protector.

Psalm 117

8. It is better to trust in the Lord,

than to trust in human might.

9. It is better to hope in the Lord,

than to place hope in rulers.

10. All the nations encompassed me,

in the Lord’s name I warded them off.

11. They completely encircled me,

but in the Lord’s name I fended

them off.

12. They encompassed me like bees about a honeycomb,

and violently blazed like fire

among thorns,

but in the Lord’s name I drove them off.

13. Hard-pressed, I was on the verge

of falling,

but the Lord supported me.

14. The Lord is my strength

and my song,

and has become my salvation.

15. A sound of rejoicing and deliverance,

in the tents of the just!

The right hand of the Lord

exercised power!

16. The right hand of the Lord has exalted me,

The right hand of the Lord

has wrought mightily!

17. I shall not die,

but I shall live,

and recount the deeds of the Lord!

18. The Lord chastised me

with correction,

but has not delivered me over to death.

19. Open to me the gates

of righteousness;

I pass through them and give thanks

to the Lord.

20. This is the gate of the Lord;

the righteous enter through it.

21. I will give thanks to you,

for you have heard me,

and become my salvation.

22. The stone which the builders rejected,

the very one,

now has become the chief cornerstone.

23. Through the Lord this has happened,

and it is marvelous in our eyes.

24. This is the day which the Lord

has made,

let us rejoice and be glad in it.

25. O Lord, save, I beseech you,

O Lord, grant prosperity indeed!

26. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.

We have blessed all of you from the house of the Lord.

Psalm 118

9. How can a youth make his way prosperous?

By keeping your words.

10. With all my heart I have diligently sought you;

do not let me fall away from your commandments.

11. I have hidden your oracles

in my heart;

so that I would not sin against you.

12. Blessed are you, O Lord,

teach me your decrees.

13. With my lips I have declared,

all the judgments of your mouth.

14. I have taken delight in the path of your testimonies;

as much as in all riches.

15. I will mull over your commandments,

and consider your ways.

16. I will meditate on your decrees;

I will not forget your words.

17. Grant recompense to your servant,

that I may live and keep your words.

18. Pull the veil from my eyes,

that I may perceive the wondrous things of your law.

19. I myself am a stranger in the land,

do not hide your commandments

from me.

20. My soul has longed vehemently,

for your judgments at all times.

21. You have rebuked the haughty,

cursed are they who turn away from your commands.

22. Remove from me reproach

and contempt,

for I have sought diligently

after your testimonies.

23. For rulers sat and spoke out

against me,

but your servant was mulling over

your decrees.

24. For your testimonies are

my meditation,

and your decrees are my counselors.

25. My life has clung to the ground;

keep me alive according to your word.

26. I declared my ways and you hearkened to me;

teach me your decrees.

27. Instruct me in the way

of your statutes,

and I will mull over your

wondrous deeds.

28. My soul has slumbered

with heaviness;

strengthen me with your words.

29. Remove me from the path

of injustice;

and have mercy on me through

your law.

30. I have chosen the way of truth,

and have not forgotten your judgments.

31. I have clung to your testimonies,

O Lord;

do not put me to shame.

32. I have run the way of your commandments,

whenever you enlarged my heart.

33. Train me, O Lord, in the way

of your statutes,

and I will diligently seek after them

at every occasion.

34. Instruct me that I may search out your law,

and keep it with all my heart.

35. Guide me in the path of your commandments,

for I have taken delight in them.

36. Incline my heart to your testimonies;

and not to covetousness.

37. Turn my eyes away from

beholding vanity;

give me life in your way.

38. Confirm your oracle to your servant,

that I may revere you.

39. Take away my reproach

which I dreaded;

for your judgments are pleasant.

40. Behold, I have desired your commandments;

grant me life by your righteousness.

41. Let your mercy come upon me,

O Lord,

your salvation according to your word.

42. And so I shall answer those who reproach me,

because I trusted in your words.

43. Do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth;

because I have placed my hope in your judgments.

44. I shall continually keep your law,

even forever and ever.

45. I have roamed about

in an open space,

because I diligently sought

your commandments.

46. I spoke of your testimonies

before kings,

and was not overcome with shame.

47. I meditated on your commandments,

which I loved exceedingly.

48. I have lifted my hands to your precepts which I loved,

and mulled over your decrees.

49. Remember your words

to your servant,

for which you have caused me to hope.

50. This has comforted me in my humiliation,

for your oracle has kept me alive.

51. The haughty have greatly transgressed,

but I have not swerved away

from your law.

52. I remembered your judgments of old, O Lord,

and thus was comforted.

53. Despondency gripped me on account of sinners—

those who totally forsake your law.

54. My songs were your decrees,

in the place of my pilgrimage.

55. I remembered your name in the night, O Lord,

and have faithfully kept your law.

56. This was my state of affairs,

for I diligently sought your precepts.

57. You are my portion, O Lord,

I said I would keep your law.

58. I entreated your presence

with my whole heart,

have mercy on me according

to your oracle.

59. I pondered over your ways

in my mind,

and I turned my footsteps

to your testimonies.

60. I prepared myself and was not disheartened,

to put your commandments

into practice.

61. The snares of sinners entrapped me;

but I did not forget your law.

62. I rose at midnight

to give you thanks,

for the judgments of your righteousness.

63. I am a companion of all

who revere you,

and of those who keep your commandments.

64. The earth is full of your mercy,

O Lord;

teach me your decrees.

65. You have dealt kindly with your servant, O Lord,

according to your word.

66. Teach me kindness, instruction and knowledge,

because I have believed in your commandments.

67. Before I was humbled, I habitually transgressed,

for this reason I have steadfastly kept your word.

68. You, O Lord, are gracious,

thus in your graciousness teach me your precepts.

69. The injustice of the proud was puffed up against me,

but I will search out your commandments with all my heart.

70. Their heart has been curdled

like milk,

thus I meditated on your law.

71. It is good that you humbled me,

that I may learn your decrees.

72. The law of your mouth

is good for me,

better than thousands of gold

and silver pieces.

73. Your hands have made me

and fashioned me;

instruct me that I may learn

your commandments.

74. Those who revere you will see me and rejoice,

because I have placed my hope

in your words.

75. I know, O Lord, that your judgments are righteous,

and that you have humbled me

by your truth.

76. Let your mercy, I pray,

be for my comfort,

according to your promise

to your servant.

77. Let your tender mercies reach me that I may live;

for your law is my meditation.

78. Let the proud be ashamed, for they sinned against me unjustly;

but I will mull over your commandments.

79. Let those who revere you turn to me,

as well as those who know

your testimonies.

80. Let my heart be blameless

in your decrees,

that I may not be put to shame.

81. My soul faints for your salvation;

I have hoped in your words.

82. My eyes failed waiting

to see your promise,

saying: “When will you comfort me?”

83. For I am like a wineskin covered with hoarfrost,

yet I have not forgotten your decrees.

84. How many are the days

of your servant?

When will you deal out judgment

on my persecutors?

85. Transgressors told me idle tales,

but your law, O Lord, told me otherwise.

86. All your commandments are truth.

They persecuted me unjustly; help me!

87. They almost finished me off

in the earth;

but I did not forsake your commandments.

88. According to your mercy

give me life,

and I will keep the testimonies

of your mouth.

89. You are forever, O Lord,

your word remains in heaven.

90. Your truth endures for all generations;

you have founded the earth and it remains.

91. By your arrangement, day shall continue,

for all things are subjected to you.

92. Were it not that your law is my meditation,

I would have perished in my affliction.

93. Let me never forget your decrees,

for through them you have

given me life.

94. I indeed am yours, save me,

for I have diligently sought out

your decrees.

95. Sinners lay in wait for me

to destroy me;

yet I understood your testimonies.

96. I have seen a limit to all perfection,

yet your commandment is very broad.

97. O how I loved your law, O Lord!

It is my meditation all day long.

98. You have made me wiser in your precept than my enemies;

because it is mine forever.

99. I have more understanding than all my teachers,

because your testimonies are my meditation.

100. I understood more than the elders,

for I diligently sought out your commandments.

101. From every evil path

I curbed my feet,

that I might keep your words.

102. I have not turned aside

from your judgments,

because you yourself indoctrinated me.

103. How sweet are your oracles

to my palate,

more so than honey in my mouth!

104. From your precepts

I gained understanding;

therefore I despise every path

of injustice.

105. Your law is a lamp to my feet,

and a light for my footsteps.

106. I have sworn

and determined to keep

the judgments of your righteousness.

107. I have been greatly afflicted,

O Lord,

give me life according to your word.

108. Please accept, O Lord,

my spontaneous words,

and teach me your judgments.

109. My life is continually in my hands,

but I have not forgotten your law.

110. Sinners set a trap for me,

but I wandered not away

from your precepts.

111. I have inherited

your testimonies forever,

because they are the joy of my heart.

112. Incline my heart

to perform your decrees,

forever is my reward.

113. I have detested transgressors,

but loved your law.

114. You are my helper

and my protector;

I have placed my hope in your words.

115. Depart from me, you evildoers,

for I will diligently seek the commandments of my God.

116. Uphold me according to your promise, and enliven me,

and let me not be ashamed

of my expectation.

117. Come to my assistance

and I shall be saved,

thus I will continually meditate

on your decrees.

118. You have brought to naught all who depart from your precepts;

because their inward thought is wicked.

119. I reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors,

therefore I have loved your testimonies.

120. Penetrate my flesh with reverence for you,

for I am afraid of your judgments.

121. I have exercised judgment

and justice,

do not deliver me up to my oppressors.

122. Be surety for your servant for good;

let not the haughty falsely accuse me.

123. My eyes have failed looking for your salvation,

and for the promise

of your righteousness.

124. Deal with your servant according to your mercy,

and teach me your decrees.

125. I am your servant, instruct me;

then I shall know your testimonies.

126. It is time for the Lord to act;

they have totally broken your law.

127. Therefore I have loved your commandments,

more than finest gold

or sparkling topaz.

128. Thus I direct myself according to all your statutes,

I detested every wicked way.

129. Your testimonies are wonderful,

therefore my soul diligently

sought them.

130. The manifestation of your words,

will enlighten and instruct children.

131. I opened my mouth

and drew breath,

because I earnestly longed

for your commandments.

132. Look down upon me and have mercy on me,

the same way you do to those who love your name.

133. Order my steps according

to your promise,

and let no iniquity have dominion

over me.

134. Deliver me from people’s false accusations,

and I will keep your commandments.

135. Let your face shine

upon your servant,

and teach me your decrees.

136. My eyes flowed

with streams of water,

because I did not keep your law.

137. You, O Lord, are righteous,

and your judgments are upright.

138. You have charged as your testimonies,

righteousness and perfect truth.

139. Zeal for your house has totally consumed me,

because my enemies have forgotten

your words.

140. Your promise has been thoroughly tested in fire,

thus your servant has loved it.

141. Although I am young and accounted for nothing,

I have not forgotten your decrees.

142. Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,

and your law is truth itself.

143. Afflictions and distress found me,

but your commandments were my meditation.

144. Your testimonies are an everlasting righteousness;

grant me understanding and I shall live.

145. I cried out with all my heart,

“Hear me, O Lord”;

I will diligently search your decrees.

146. I cried out to you, “Save me”;

and I will keep your testimonies.

147. I arose before the crack of dawn and cried out,

on your words I have placed my hope.

148. My eyes were wide awake before the dawn,

that I might meditate on your oracles.

149. Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your mercy,

according to your judgment

grant me life.

150. Those who persecuted me unjustly have drawn near,

since they were far removed

from your law.

151. You are near, O Lord,

and all your ways are truth.

152. From of old I have known

your testimonies,

because you have established

them forever.

153. Behold my affliction

and rescue me,

for I have not forgotten your law.

154. Plead my cause and deliver me,

on account of your word grant me life.

155. Salvation is far from sinners,

for they haven’t diligently

sought your decrees.

156. Many are your tender mercies,

O Lord,

according to your judgment

grant me life.

157. Many are they who persecute me and oppress me,

but I have not wavered

from your testimonies.

158. I saw people acting foolishly

and was grieved,

because they have not kept our oracles.

159. Behold, I have loved your commandments, O Lord,

in your mercy grant me life.

160. The beginning of your words

is truth,

and all of your righteous judgments

last forever.

161. Rulers persecuted me

for no reason at all,

but my heart was awestruck

by your words.

162. I will truly exult because

of your promises,

as one who finds much spoil.

163. I hate and abhor injustice;

I have loved your law.

164. Seven times a day

I have praised you,

because of your righteous judgments.

165. Much peace have those who love your law,

and for them there is no

stumbling block.

166. I have waited for your saving help, O Lord,

and have loved your commandments.

167. My soul has kept your testimonies,

and has exceedingly loved them.

168. I have kept your commandments and your testimonies,

because all your ways are before me,

O Lord.

169. Let my supplication come before you, O Lord,

according to your promise, grant me understanding.

170. Let my petition enter before you,

O Lord,

according to your promise, deliver me.

171. Let my lips utter a hymn,

when you have taught me your decrees.

172. Let my tongue resound

with your promises,

because all of your commandments

are righteous.

173. Let your hand be quick to save me,

for I have chosen your commandments.

174. I have longed for your saving help, O Lord,

and your law is my meditation.

175. My soul shall live and praise you,

and your judgments shall help me.

176. I have gone astray like a lost sheep,

seek your servant, for I haven’t forgotten your commandments.

Psalm 120

1. I lifted my eyes to the mountains,

from whence shall come my help.

2. My help is from the Lord,

the maker of heaven and earth.

3. May your foot not slip,

nor your keeper slumber.

4. Behold, the Keeper of Israel,

shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5. The Lord shall preserve you;

the Lord at your right hand shall be your shelter.

6. The sun shall not scorch you by day,

nor shall the moon harm you by night.

7. The Lord shall guard you

from all evil;

the Lord shall preserve your life.

8. The Lord shall keep watch over your coming and going,

from now and forever more.

Psalm 121

1. I was glad when they said to me:

“Let us go into the house of the Lord.”

2. We have planted our feet

in your courts, O Jerusalem.

3. Jerusalem has been built as a city,

whose compactness is complete.

4. For there the tribes go up,

the tribes of the Lord as a witness

for Israel,

to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

5. For there are set the thrones

for judgment,

thrones for the house of David.

6. Pray, I beseech you, for the peace

of Jerusalem,

and prosperity for those who love you.

7. Let peace, I pray, be within

your stronghold,

and let prosperity dwell in your palaces.

8. For the sake of my relatives

and neighbors,

I have invoked peace upon you.

9. For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,

I have purposely sought your welfare.

Psalm 122

1. I have raised my eyes to you,

who dwells in the heavens.

2. Behold, as the eyes of servants

are fixed on the hands of their masters,

and as the eyes of a maidservant,

are fixed on the hands of her mistress,

even so our eyes are fixed on the Lord our God,

until God display compassion

towards us.

3. Have mercy upon us, O Lord,

have mercy upon us,

for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

4. Indeed, our life has been

exceedingly filled;

let reproach come upon the prosperous,

and contempt fall upon the haughty.

Psalm 123

1. If the Lord had not been in our midst,

let Israel say;

2. if the Lord had not been in our midst,

when people rose up against us,

3. then would they have swallowed

us up alive,

when their anger blazed out against us,

4. then the waters would have

drowned us,

and our life would have gone under the torrent.

5. Indeed our soul would have sunk,

beneath the overwhelming waters.

6. Blessed be the Lord,

who has not given us as prey

to their teeth!

7. Our life has escaped like a bird

from the fowler’s snare,

the snare was shattered,

and we have escaped.

8. Our help is in the name of the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 124

1. Those who trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion,

whoever dwells in Jerusalem shall never be shaken.

2. The mountains encompass her,

and the Lord encompasses his people,

from now and forever more.

3. For the Lord will not permit,

the rod of sinners,

over the lot of the righteous,

lest the righteous stretch forth

their hands to iniquity.

4. Do good, O Lord,

to those who are good and upright

in heart.

5. But those who swerve into

crooked paths,

the Lord will drive away with the workers of iniquity.

Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 125

1. When the Lord returned the captives of Zion,

we were like those who are comforted.

2. Then our mouth was filled with joy,

and our tongue with exultation;

then would they say among the nations:

“The Lord has done great things

for them.”

3. The Lord has done great things for us,

and we have become overjoyed.

4. Bring back, O Lord, our captives,

like streams in the south.

5. Those who sow in tears,

shall reap rejoicing.

6. They trudged along weeping,

sowing their seed,

but they shall come skipping for joy,

carrying their sheaves.

Psalm 126

1. Unless the Lord build the house,

the builders have labored in vain.

Unless the Lord keep watch

over the city,

in vain has the guard kept watch.

2. It is vain for you to rise early.

Rise up after you are rested,

you who eat the bread of grief,

when sleep is granted to his beloved.

3. Behold the inheritance of the Lord,

children, the reward of the fruit

of the womb.

4. As arrows in the hand

of a mighty warrior,

so are the children of those

who were expelled.

5. Blessed whoever shall satisfy

his desire with them!

They shall not be put to shame,

when they speak to their enemies

in the gateways.

Psalm 127

1. Blessed are all who revere the Lord,

who walk in his ways.

2. You shall eat the fruit of your labors,

blessed are you, and it shall be well

with you.

3. Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine

attached to the sides of your house.

Your children shall be

as young olive plants,

encircling your table.

4. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed,

who reveres the Lord.

5. May the Lord bless you out of Zion,

and may you see the prosperity

of Jerusalem,

all the days of your life.

6. And may you see

your children’s children.

Peace upon Israel.

Psalm 129

1. Out of the depths,

have I cried to you, O Lord.

2. O Lord, hearken to my voice,

let your ears be attentive

to the sound of my supplication.

3. If you, O Lord,

should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who shall be left standing?

4. For there is propitiation with you.

5. For the sake of your name I have waited O Lord;

my soul has waited for your word.

6. My soul has placed its hope

in the Lord,

from the morning watch until night.

7. Let Israel hope in the Lord,

for with the Lord there is mercy,

and bountiful redemption.

8. And he himself will redeem Israel

from all its iniquities.

Psalm 130

1. O Lord, my heart is not haughty,

neither are my eyes lofty.

Neither have I trafficked

in great matters,

or in things too marvelous for me.

2. If I had not been humble,

but exalted my soul

like a weaned child

from its mother’s breast,

how you would have repaid my soul!

3. Let Israel hope in the Lord,

henceforth and forever more.

Psalm 131

1. O Lord, remember David,

and all his meekness,

2. how he swore to the Lord,

made a vow to the God of Jacob:

3. “I will not enter my own house,

nor lay down to rest on my bed,

4. nor give sleep to my eyes,

and slumber to my eyelids,

nor rest to my temples,

5. until I find a place for the Lord,

a dwelling for the God of Jacob.”

6. Behold we heard of it in Ephrata,

we found it in the fields of the woods.

7. Let us enter into his tabernacles;

let us worship at the place

where his feet stood.

8. Arise, O Lord, and come

into your rest,

you and the ark of your holiness.

9. Your priests shall clothe themselves with righteousness,

and your holy ones shall exult with joy.

10. For the sake of your servant David,

turn not your face away from your anointed.

11. The Lord has sworn

in truth to David,

and will not annul it:

“From the fruit of your loins,

I will set one on your throne;

12. If your children keep my covenant,

and these my testimonies which I shall teach them,

their children also shall sit

upon your throne.

13. For the Lord has elected Zion,

has chosen her as a dwelling for himself.

14. This is my resting place forever,

here will I dwell, for I have chosen her.

15. I will abundantly bless her provision;

I will satisfy her poor with bread.

16. I shall clothe her priests

with salvation,

and her saints shall exceedingly exult.

17. There will I cause to spring up a horn for David;

I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

18. I will clothe his enemies with shame,

but upon himself my holiness

shall flourish.”

Psalm 132

1. Behold indeed! What is so good

or so pleasant,

as for brothers and sisters

to dwell together?

2. It is like precious ointment

upon the head,

running down upon the beard,

even the beard of Aaron,

running down to the fringe of his robe.

3. It is like the dew of Hermon,

which comes down on the mountains

of Zion,

for there the Lord invoked the blessing,

life for evermore.

Psalm 133

1. Now, I pray you,

bless the Lord,

all you servants of the Lord,

who stand in the house of the Lord,

in the courts of the house of our God.

2. Lift up your hands by night

in the holy places,

and bless the Lord.

3. May the Lord bless you out of Zion,

the maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 136

1. By the rivers of Babylon,

there we sat and wept,

remembering Zion.

2. Upon the willows

in the midst of it,

we hung up our harps.

3. For there our captors asked us

the words of a song,

and those who carried us away,

asked for a hymn:

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

4. How could we sing the Lord’s song,

in a foreign land?

5. If I should forget you,

O Jerusalem,

let my right hand be forgotten!

6. May my tongue cleave to my throat,

if I should not remember you,

if I do not prefer Jerusalem,

as the chief subject of my joy.

Psalm 137

1. I will give thanks to you, O Lord,

with my whole heart,

and I shall sing psalms to you in the presence of the angels,

because you have listened to all the words of my mouth.

2. I will worship

before your holy temple,

and I will give thanks to your name,

on account of your mercy

and your truth,

for you have magnified your holy name above all else.

3. On whatever day I invoke you,

speedily answer me,

thus you shall abundantly supply me

with your power in my soul.

4. Let all the kings of the earth,

render you thanks, O Lord,

for they have heard

all the words of your mouth.

5. And let them sing

in the ways of the Lord,

for great is the glory of the Lord.

6. For the Lord is on high,

yet looks after the lowly,

and knows lofty matters from afar.

7. Though I should walk,

in the midst of affliction,

you will grant me life.

Against the wrath of my enemies,

you have stretched forth your hand,

indeed, your right hand has saved me.

8. O Lord, you will repay them,

on my behalf.

O Lord, your mercy endures forever;

do not overlook the work of your hands.

Psalm 138

1. O Lord, you proved me,

and you have known me.

2. You know my sitting down

and my rising up.

You understand my thoughts from afar.

3. You have kept track of my footsteps and laying down,

indeed, you have foreseen all my ways.

4. For there is no unrighteous word,

to be found upon my tongue.

5. Behold, O Lord, you know all things:

the last as well as the first;

you have fashioned me,

and placed your hand upon me.

6. This knowledge of yours is too marvelous for me,

I cannot even come close to it.

7. Where could I go from you Spirit?

And where can I flee from your presence?

8. If I should ascend to heaven,

you are there;

if I should descend to the grave,

you are present.

9. If I wing my way to the rising sun

in the east,

or dwell in the farthest reaches

of the western sea,

10. even there your hand

would guide me,

and your right hand would hold me.

11. When I said: “Surely darkness will trample me under foot,”

then to my astonishment,

night became luminous.

12. For darkness cannot grow dark

apart from you,

and night can be made

as brilliant as day;

the darkness of the one, as the light of the other.

13. For you, O Lord,

created my inner parts,

have supported me

from my mother’s womb.

14. I will give thanks to you,

for you are dreadfully wondrous;

wondrous are your works,

as my soul well knows.

Psalm 140

1. O Lord, I cried out to you,

hearken to me;

attend to the sound of my supplication,

whenever I call out to you.

2. Let my prayer come before you

as incense,

the raising of my hands

like an evening sacrifice.

3. Set a watch, O Lord, over my mouth,

and a bolted door over my lips.

4. Do not let my heart turn aside

to evil deeds,

to form excuses for sins with those who work iniquity,

nor let me keep company with their chosen bands.

5. Let the righteous correct me with mercy and reprove me,

but do not let the oil of the sinner anoint my head,

for this is still my prayer in the midst of their pleasures.

Psalm 141

1. With my voice I cried out to the Lord;

with my voice raised, I pleaded

to the Lord.

2. I will pour out before him

my supplication;

I will openly declare my affliction.

3. When my spirit was fainting

within me,

and you knew my footsteps,

in the very path upon which I traveled,

they hid a trap for me.

4. I looked to the right and took stock,

there was no one there who knew me.

A means of escape was cut off from me,

and there was no one who sought my well-being.

5. I cried out to you, O Lord, and said:

“You are my hope, my lot in the land of the living.”

6. Attend to my supplication,

for I am brought very low.

Deliver me from my persecutors,

for they are stronger than I.

7. Bring my life out of this prison,

that I might give thanks to your name, O Lord.

The righteous shall wait for me,

until I receive recompense.

Psalm 142

1. O Lord, hearken to my petition;

give ear to my supplication

in your truth;

answer me in your righteousness.

2. Enter not into judgment

with your servant,

for in your sight no living person

can be justified.

3. For the enemy has eagerly

pursued my soul,

has driven my life to the ground,

has caused me to be holed up

in dark holes,

like those who have been long dead.

4. Therefore my spirit was grieved within me;

my heart was deeply troubled

within me.

5. I remembered the days of old,

and meditated on all your works;

I mused on the works of your hands.

6. I stretched out my hands to you;

my soul thirsts for you

like parched land.

7. Speedily hear me, O Lord;

my spirit has fainted.

Do not turn your face away from me,

or I shall become like those who sink in the pit.

8. Cause me to hear your mercy

in the morning,

because I have placed my hope in you.

Make known to me, O Lord,

the path on which I should walk,

for I have lifted up my soul to you.

9. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord,

because I have fled to you for refuge.

10. Teach me to put your will into practice,

because you are my God.

Let your good Spirit guide me into the upright land.

11. For the sake of your name, O Lord, grant me life;

in your righteousness,

you shall bring my life out of tribulation.

12. And in your mercy,

you will utterly destroy my enemies,

and wipe out all who afflict my soul,

because I indeed am your servant.

Psalm 144

1. I shall exalt you, my God, my King,

and I shall bless your name forever,

even to the ages of ages.

2. Every day I shall bless you

and praise your name forever,

even to the ages of ages.

3. Great is the Lord and exceedingly praiseworthy,

his greatness knows no bounds.

4. Generation upon generation shall praise your deeds,

and they shall declare your power.

5. They shall speak of the glorious magnificence of your holiness,

and they shall describe at length your marvelous deeds.

6. They shall discourse about the power of your awesome works,

and they shall describe at length your great majesty.

7. They shall overflow with memories

of your abundant goodness,

and shall greatly rejoice

in your righteousness.

8. The Lord is compassionate

and merciful,

longsuffering and abounding in mercy.

9. The Lord is good to those

who wait patiently,

and his compassionate mercies are upon all his works.

10. O Lord, let all your works

praise you,

and all your holy ones bless you!

Psalm 145

1. Praise the Lord, O my soul.

2. I shall praise the Lord while I live;

I shall sing to my God as long as I exist.

3. Do not trust in rulers,

or in any human offspring,

in whom there is no salvation.

4. Their breath shall be exhaled,

and they shall return to their earth;

on that day all their thoughts

shall perish.

5. Blessed is the one whose help

is the God of Jacob;

whose hope is in the Lord his God,

6. who made heaven and earth,

the seas and everything in them;

who keeps truth forever;

7. who executes justice for the wronged;

who provides food for the hungry.

The Lord liberates those held

in bondage.

The Lord grants wisdom to the blind.

8. The Lord restores the broken-hearted.

The Lord loves the righteous.

9. The Lord protects the resident alien,

and shall adopt the orphan

and the widow,

but destroy the way of sinners.

The Lord shall reign forever;

your God, O Zion, for all generations.